North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Router modifications to deal with smurf
Lucent/Livingston has pointedly ignored just this RFE request for over a year. -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 05:29:02PM -0400, Rusty Zickefoose wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Fun with my mailor, let me try this again. > > So, if someone, or possibly a group of someones, were to make the > following request to the various router vendors, would they be met with > approval by most of the readers? > > We requests that your routers be configurable, at the interface > level, to prevent the forwarding of an ICMP echo-request packet through an > interface that has a broadcast or wire address that matches the > destination address of that packet. We also request that the default > configurations of your routers be modified to prevent said forwarding. > > We request that your routers be configurable, both globally and > and the interface level, with the interface configuration overiding the > global configuration, to prevent the forwarding of an IP packet with a > source network address different from the network address of the interface > on which it was received. We also request that the default configurations > of your routers be modified to prevent, globally, said forwarding. > > > - -- > Rusty Zickefoose | The most exciting phrase to hear in science, > [email protected] | the one that heralds new discoveries, is not > | "Eureka!", but "That's funny ..." > | -- Isaac Asimov > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.2 > > iQCVAwUBNUJVpe4+ch/bGDylAQH3uAP/ZHRdlufm9gbTUalVC9ax0H/nK7W/4S9r > QLuSEfh9N8nHTbd4wSllB2GorzM46A0XFZCKAmUWzc5wFKL5lfjGbbu6Tfd8UUOF > lxTQJYdda2ikmbLLBr8p+cUnb6BQLsA81Tst2twDc2BCf8GQsjxZvrCwh8sLCACe > q47YHAChVLk= > =htio > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
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