engineering --> ddos and flooding
Geoff Z
geoffz at mts.net
Thu May 31 22:27:29 UTC 2001
Steven Bellovin has been doing considerable and valuable work on a method
called pushback. You can find a paper on this here:
http://www.research.att.com/~smb/papers/pushback-impl.pdf
He is a listmember here and one of the real luminaries on IP security
issues.
Best regards,
====================
Geoff Zinderdine
CCNP CCA MCP
MTS Communications Inc.
====================
"I'd rather route than switch."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Dorsett" <zerocool at netpath.net>
To: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 4:59 PM
Subject: engineering --> ddos and flooding
>
> Hey, this is a technical question for all of the Network
> Engineers/Architects on the list. Has a method been found to stop an
> incoming attack? Granted you can filter the packets to null on the
router,
> but that doesn't stop them from coming across the wire and into the
> router. Has a way been devised to stop them from coming into the router;
> via something like a BGP update to null the packets or what? I'm
concerned
> about a flood that is so massive coming from the core and flooding a small
> T1 or less.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
> ---
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>
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