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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
>From my understanding the PC sends a packet with a source address that will be routed back to DirecPC so that it can come down the Satellite link. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Steve Sobol > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 10:58 PM > To: Sean Donelan > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: 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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