Re: smurf

[Paul Ferguson <ferguson () cisco com>]

This is also mentioned in the *-03.txt version of the
ingress filtering draft:

 ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ferguson-ingress-filtering-03.txt

- paul


At 03:13 PM 12/8/97 -0800, Craig A. Huegen wrote:

> It's a requirement per the RFC:
>
> (from my smurf paper)
>
> RFC 1812,
> "Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers", Section 5.3.5, specifies: 
>
> ---
>   A router MAY have an option to disable receiving network-prefix-
>   directed broadcasts on an interface and MUST have an option to
>   disable forwarding network-prefix-directed broadcasts.  These options
>   MUST default to permit receiving and forwarding network-prefix-
>   directed broadcasts.
> ---