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Re: If you have nothing to hide

  • From: bdragon
  • Date: Mon Aug 05 10:54:02 2002 
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> our packets. While I'm certainly in favor of anything edge providers can
> do to eliminate denial of service attacks based on source-routing,
> I certainly don't want anything further.
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denial of service based upon source routing? I hadn't heard of any denial
of service attacks of that sort.

Disabling source-routing is like filtering icmp, sure you might block
a few abuses, but more often than not, you are throwing out legitimate
traffic.