Re: New Internet-draft on DDOS defense...

[Brandon Ross <bross () netrail net>]

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Owen DeLong wrote:

> Right answer, wrong reason.  The originating host will be easy to identify
> because the MAC address of the originating machine of the ECHO-REQUEST
> packets will be contained in the packets.

I have to strongly disagree, MAC addresses don't make it across router
boundaries, source IP addresses do.

Brandon Ross                                                 404-522-5400
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Read RFC 2644!
Stop Smurf attacks!  Configure your router interfaces to block directed
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