Smurf tone down

Sat May 1 06:53:26 UTC 1999

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, R.P. Aditya wrote:

> One said, sorry, can't do it on our router for "technical reasons" (think very
> large national provider).

Yes, I was told this by one upstream as well.

> Another said, since we have lots and lots of customers (implying that there is
> no "normal ICMP flows" level), and we're carrying it over our network to you,
> your router might as well do the work of discarding the packets (think very
> savvy colocation provider).

The point is missed here; don't they realise there is benefit to them?

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