Smurfing
Paul Ferguson
pferguso at cisco.com
Sun Feb 15 11:40:38 UTC 1998
Prehaps RFC1812 *should* be updated to reflect that this
is destructive behavior.
Having said that, this is work whch should be suggested to
the IETF -- the NANOG participants, being operations focused,
are in a very good position to make noise on this front.
- paul
>
> Excerpted from section 5.3.5:
>
> 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.
>
> Or perhaps because the folks on this list haven't made it clear enough
> to their vendors that the default should be "off" <hint>.
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