Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack

Tue Jan 12 18:11:09 UTC 1999

On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 danderson at lycos.com wrote:

> I'm not sure what the big issue here is with the smurf attacks. If you set
> up some kind of access list that disables incoming icmp traffic, then turn

That breaks path MTU discovery (see RFC 1435 for more info on that), among
other things.

-Steve

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