SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)

Tue Sep 10 18:36:29 UTC 1996

Sharif Torpis writes:
>
>The Ascends can also do this but I agree that you wouldn't want to filter at
>the NAS. Logistical reasons are reason enough to filter at an upstream router
>where the dialup traffic is aggregated.

On top of that, from what I've heard about Ascend's software, I'd
rather use cisco's filters, since thier software is better.

Alec

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