[nsp] Re: TTL issues [NO - NOTHING TO DO WIH DOS ATTACKS]

From: Alex Bligh (amb@gxn.net)
Date: Sun Mar 29 1998 - 06:54:46 EST


I shall learn in future never to post to two lists with similar
readerships on different issues simultaneously. Following my
post on NANOG I've now been told by no less than 8 people that
my cisco-nsp question is not the right way to go about solving
DOS attacks. I agree completely. That wasn't what I was trying to
do. FWIW here's what I want to do:

> > We've run out of space in our colocation areas and people
> > are thus buying our ethernet colocation service and finding their
> > own space in the building. They can get (say) a Class C for
> > virtual hosts. I want to stop them plugging in a gated box
> > and running an etnire network behind it. IE what I want to
> > make sure is that it only goes to addresses whose MAC addresses
> > are immediately visible. This seemed like a nice way to do it.
> > Yes, one joker has tried it.

-- 
Alex Bligh
GX Networks (formerly Xara Networks)



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Aug 04 2002 - 04:13:16 EDT