Re: Cisco says attacks are due to operational practices

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Thu, 10 February 2000, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> Excuse me, but can you please tell me what "application" a downstream
> customer might be running which originates packets for traffic with
> source addresses which they are not advertising (or you are advertising
> for them)?

The usual example given is Hughes DirectPC, which sends packets with
a source address of the satellite link via a dialup ISP connection.