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Re: (ASCEND) Directed Broadcasts
Thanks Andre,
We should all have been requesting this as a priority for some time now.
Thanks for the reminder.
Alex P
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Andre Beck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> broadcast pings to the directed broadcast address of a network seem
> to be a new beloved toy of the Bad Guys out there on the net. We've
> seen extraordinairy amounts of traffic produced this way for some
> customers who were attacked, and the customers are really not amused
> (we do volume oriented accounting). I know I could set a filter to
> drop traffic to the directed broadcast address but IMHO this should
> better be a nice little and simple
>
> Feature Request:
>
> Add an Option to Ethernet/Mod Config/Ether Options
> named Directed Bcast
> with values Yes or No. If set to Yes, the Ascend box behaves as
> former. If set to No, it will not explode Directed Broadcasts on
> this Ethernet Interface.
>
> Pros ? Cons ?
>
> Pro #1: Cisco has it ;)
>
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