smurf
Paul Ferguson
ferguson at cisco.com
Wed Dec 10 12:22:12 UTC 1997
This is also mentioned in the *-03.txt version of the
ingress filtering draft:
ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ferguson-ingress-filtering-03.txt
- paul
At 03:13 PM 12/8/97 -0800, Craig A. Huegen wrote:
>
>It's a requirement per the RFC:
>
>(from my smurf paper)
>
>RFC 1812,
>"Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers", Section 5.3.5, specifies:
>
>---
> A router MAY have an option to disable receiving network-prefix-
> directed broadcasts on an interface and MUST have an option to
> disable forwarding network-prefix-directed broadcasts. These options
> MUST default to permit receiving and forwarding network-prefix-
> directed broadcasts.
>---
>
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