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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: spare swamp space?
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Alex Bligh wrote: > Effectively this means that if your public IP gets smurfed, it's b/w > usage internally on your network is limited. If your private IP gets > smurfed, it all gets dropped (thinking about it if you made exceptions > for IRC peering you could do the whole thing on one IP if your customers > never use border router i/fs). > > If you are paying per bit, you'll still pay for smurfs, but they'll have > to be 45Mb/s in size to cause any real damage. You'll probably find BGP > flapping up and down as your T1 saturates is more of a problem. I believe the major point was that the smurfed traffic shouldnt be routed at all outside of the provider that hasnt fixed their smurf-relays, bringing down the impact on transit providers as well...? ----- Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected]
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