Re: Re[2]: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)

["Alec H. Peterson" <chuckie () panix com>]

Pat Calhoun writes:
>     Perry,
>     
>        This is actually quite simple to implement on Dial Access Routers, 
>     and obviously this is the best place to add the filtering. 

Sure, that's a place to start.  Except for a few problems:

1) The people doing this are not necessarily using a dialup IP
   connection.
2) Many of us don't have dial access routers that can handle this.

Alec

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