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Re: Smurfing


From: Eric Osborne <osborne () notcom com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 14:41:13 -0500 (EST)



Perhaps some of the folks on NANOG that use equipment other than Cisco
would like to share how they "configure their router for that"?  It would
be a nice service to everyone...

Charles



Your router packet-filters, right?  I don't know the Bay config syntax, but
a poor-man's version of "no ip directed-broadcast" is to disallow ICMP 
(or IP, if you have to do it that way) to the broadcast addresses on your 
network.  

Yeah, it's not perfect.  Yeah, there are some problems with it.  Yeah, it
won't work terribly well if you break up CIDR blocks and hand them to customers
who break them up and hand them to customers who break them up.... but it
will work.  Especially if you apply it as close to the customer side of 
things as possible.




eric



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