North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Router modifications to deal with smurf
On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 05:59:42PM -0400, John Hawkinson wrote: > > 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. > > I'd be concerned that having this as a default is not necessarily > the right thing in sufficiently large numbers of situations as to > make this a bad idea. I know we've collectively been here before, but is it not a reasonable assumption that people whose routing patterns might be assymetrical enough to break this as a default should be expected to be bright enough to switch it off? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com
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