no ip forged-source-address

Thu Oct 31 06:21:00 UTC 2002

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, H. Michael Smith, Jr. wrote:

>
> A fundamental effect of spoofing addresses from your local subnet is
> that when the packets reach their target, the source addresses are
> meaningful.  I realize that the traceability of these packets has
> already been mentioned, but I want to point out the profound difference
> between a DDoS attack with meaningful vs. meaningless source addresses.
>

I'm confused.. its still a DoS attack, eh??