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Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

  • From: Alex Yuriev
  • Date: Fri Oct 31 11:37:53 2003 
> > It is content filtering. You are filtering packets that you think are
> > causing problems to the ES that you may not control.
> 
> No, he said quite clearly he's filtering packets (such as Nachi ICMP) that are
> causing harm to *his* network.  He gets to make a choice - filter the known
> problem packets so the rest of the traffic can get through, or watch the
> network melt down and nobody gets anything.

He needs to fix his network so those 92 byte ICMP packets wont break it.

Alex