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Re: [nsp] known networks for broadcast ping attacks

  • From: Frank Kastenholz
  • Date: Wed Aug 13 07:41:40 1997 
At 12:45 PM 8/13/97 +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:

>How do you know it's a directed broadcast if it's not for a connected
>subnet?  Yes, you can make some guesses, but I am not convinced that
>that's a good idea.

The last-hop router could do it.

Frank Kastenholz
Gigapacket Networks