Re: SYN flooding....

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@work.smurf.noris.de)
30 May 1997 16:53:03 +0200

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Craig Brozefsky <craig@onshore.com> writes:
>
> UUnet in Chicago does no filtering either. I was able to shoot packets
> of any design up that pipe. I suppose for them filtering at the more
> central routers is akin to making a high speed runner doing marathon
> stints present a report to the Environmental Protection Agency regading
> the consequences of each of his footfalls for each step.
>
Filtering by source address is no more expensive than routing by
destination address, assuming that the downstream site doesn't have another
internet connection. In both cases, you look it up in the routing table.

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