North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cisco says attacks are due to operational practices
> On Thu, 10 February 2000, Paul Ferguson wrote: > > Excuse me, but can you please tell me what "application" a downstream > > customer might be running which originates packets for traffic with > > source addresses which they are not advertising (or you are advertising > > for them)? > > The usual example given is Hughes DirectPC, which sends packets with > a source address of the satellite link via a dialup ISP connection. Um. I know the basics of the DirecPC service, and not much else about it. From what I understand, traffic from the customer's PC does not touch the satellite at all, it goes through the modem, so I assume you're talking about traffic to the PC here? Can you elaborate, please? -- North Shore Technologies, Cleveland, OH http://NorthShoreTechnologies.net Steve Sobol, President, Chief Website Architect and Janitor [email protected] - 888.480.4NET - 216.619.2NET
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