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Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective attacks?

  • From: Brad Laue
  • Date: Thu Jan 16 23:58:38 2003 
Christopher L. Morrow wrote:

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Brad Laue wrote:



[ .. ]

Doesn't ECN depend on 'well behaved' traffic? In other words, wouldn't it
require the hosts sending traffic to slow down? So... even if the hosts
slowed down, 10,000 hosts still is a high traffic rate at the end point.
:(
Good point.

I suppose another basic but effective method of prevention would be egress filtering. An increasing minority of network providers are instituting it, but it doesn't seem like it will be a widespread thing in the near-term.

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