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RE: no ip forged-source-address

  • From: Christopher L. Morrow
  • Date: Thu Oct 31 01:23:48 2002 

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, H. Michael Smith, Jr. wrote:

>
> A fundamental effect of spoofing addresses from your local subnet is
> that when the packets reach their target, the source addresses are
> meaningful.  I realize that the traceability of these packets has
> already been mentioned, but I want to point out the profound difference
> between a DDoS attack with meaningful vs. meaningless source addresses.
>

I'm confused.. its still a DoS attack, eh??