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RE: no ip forged-source-address


From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris () UU NET>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:21:00 +0000 (GMT)




On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, H. Michael Smith, Jr. wrote:


A fundamental effect of spoofing addresses from your local subnet is
that when the packets reach their target, the source addresses are
meaningful.  I realize that the traceability of these packets has
already been mentioned, but I want to point out the profound difference
between a DDoS attack with meaningful vs. meaningless source addresses.


I'm confused.. its still a DoS attack, eh??


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