[nsp] known networks for broadcast ping attacks

prue at ISI.EDU prue at ISI.EDU
Wed Jul 30 23:30:15 UTC 1997


A cheap solution for routers who are not expected to forward LAN broadcast
packets is to put a host route in the router to route packets to the
broadcast address to null0.  This reduces the per packet overhead of an
access list and silently discards these bad packets.

Walt



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