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Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own bac kbone?)


From: Chris Adams <cmadams () hiwaay net>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:16:24 -0500


Once upon a time, Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net> said:
Are people idiots or do they just not possess equipment capable of 
trashing 92 byte icmp traffic and letting the small amount of normal 
traffic through unhindered?

Well, when we used the policy routing example from the Cisco advisory to
drop just 92 byte ICMP traffic, we had other random types of traffic
dropped as well (possibly an IOS bug, but who knows).
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams () hiwaay net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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