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Re: Smurfing


From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () scfn thpl lib fl us>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 22:11:03 -0500

On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 06:36:06PM -0500, Dean Anderson wrote:
It would be a bad default, since the less experienced net-admin at a
private company might not understand why broadcasts don't work, whilst the
more sophisticated net-admins supposedly found at ISP's and NSP's know
about these things, and usually have some tools to quickly configure
routers in cookie-cutter fashion, making the defaults unnecessary ;-)

Oh, _obviously_, Dean.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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