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 ;) -- Kanther-Line: PGP SSH IDEA MD5 GOST RIPE-MD160 3DES RSA FEAL32 RC4 +-o-+--------------------------------------------------------+-o-+ | o | \\\- Brain Inside -/// | o | | o | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | o | | o | Andre' Beck (ABPSoft) beck@ibh-dd.de XLink PoP Dresden | o | +-o-+--------------------------------------------------------+-o-+ ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request@bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <<A HREF="http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq">http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq</A>> </PRE> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <HR> <STRONG>Follow-Ups</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A HREF="msg11636.html">Re: (ASCEND) Directed Broadcasts</A></STRONG></LI> <UL> <LI><EM>From</EM>: Alex P <alex@stomp.gomax.com></LI> </UL> </UL> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <HR> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11632.html">Re: (ASCEND) Maxes and Bitsurfer Pro</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11629.html">(ASCEND) 6.0 beta hangs MAX2000 with V110 modem card installed</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11629.html">(ASCEND) 6.0 beta hangs MAX2000 with V110 modem card installed</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11636.html">Re: (ASCEND) Directed Broadcasts</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="maillist.html#11630"><STRONG>Main</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thrd275.html#11630"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> </BODY> </HTML>