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Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
> Maybe the person who was attacked from that address can do a trace to it ?
> Obviously THEY have a route to it.
No, you don't have to have a route (back) to A.B.C.D to have a packet
arrive with a source address of A.B.C.D. It might be nice if that were
the case in every router, but smurf can be effective just because this
is _not_ the case (as applies to the originating echo requests).
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