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Re: Filter NTP traffic by packet size?


From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 03:08:16 +0000


On Feb 21, 2014, at 9:55 AM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins () arbor net> wrote:

Filtering out packets this size from UDP/anything to UDP/123 allows time-sync requests and responses to work, but 
squelches both the level-6/-7 commands used to trigger amplification as well as amplified attack traffic.

That should read, filtering out packets **** NOT **** that size.

Lack of sleep, apologies.

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