Re: Smurfing

[Deepak Jain <deepak () jain com>]

I don't think its possible since only the local router has exact 
information on the broadcast addresses it supports. 

Now on something like Mae-East, what is the deal if someone pings 
192.41.177.255?

-Deepak.

On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Steve Hultquist wrote:

> Don't these answers answer a different question? Isn't the question how to
> filter *outbound* attacks, not inbound ones? Filtering the inbound ones is
> pretty easy on a Bay or anything with filters (drop packets bound for the
> broadcast addresses). Filtering outbound is another story, especially with
> CIDR. I would like to set up my routers to make sure I'm protecting as much
> of the 'net as possible from attempts by my customers to do evil. However,
> it's not clear to me how to do that. Does "no ip directed-broadcast" somehow
> filter the *outbound* attacks or just the inbound ones?
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