A modest proposal

Wed Sep 18 15:12:03 UTC 1996

Allan Chong writes:
> The phone company keeps a record of every incoming and outgoing call
> on every line, and performs all sorts of analysis on time of day and
> carrier, and who gets paid for it.
[...]
> ISPs need
> to spend the money to make this a reality and keep accounting data
> for at least several days or a week.  

The volume of IP datagrams exceeds the volume of calls worldwide by
orders of magnitude.

The cost of a router is orders of magnitude lower than the cost of a
phone switch.

The quantity of data required to log all packets going by is only
about a factor of ten less than the total data crossing the
network. Imagine the size of the disks involved.

In sort, this is not the way to stop SYN attacks.

Perry