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 ;) > > -- > > 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>> > ++ 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--> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <HR> <STRONG>References</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A HREF="msg11630.html">(ASCEND) Directed Broadcasts</A></STRONG></LI> <UL> <LI><EM>From</EM>: Andre Beck <beck@ibh-dd.de></LI> </UL> </UL> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <HR> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11635.html">Re: (ASCEND) Getting USR Sportsters to behave...</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11634.html">(ASCEND) 5.0Ai28</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11630.html">(ASCEND) Directed Broadcasts</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11646.html">Re: (ASCEND) Directed Broadcasts</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="maillist.html#11636"><STRONG>Main</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thrd275.html#11636"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> </BODY> </HTML>