Re: Ping flooding

["Brett D. Watson" <bwatson () genuity net>]

> From:    Jerry Anderson <jerry () gi net>
> Subject: Re: Ping flooding
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> > That's once again a matter of defaults -- routers should _by
> > default_  discard all packets from interfaces which they won't
> > use for forwarding those packets back.
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> Why?

  then you'll never have an asymetric route.  how handy.

-brett

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