Ping flooding

Thu Jul 11 01:16:35 UTC 1996

> From:    Jerry Anderson <jerry at gi.net>
> Subject: Re: Ping flooding
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> > That's once again a matter of defaults -- routers should _by
> > default_  discard all packets from interfaces which they won't
> > use for forwarding those packets back.
> 
> Why?

  then you'll never have an asymetric route.  how handy.

-brett