no ip forged-source-address

Thu Oct 31 06:46:45 UTC 2002

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:21:00 GMT, "Christopher L. Morrow" said:
>
> > I'm confused.. its still a DoS attack, eh??
>
> It's the difference between:
>
> A) Going out to your car at the end of a too-long day and finding a
> broken taillight.
>
> B) Going out to your car at the end of a too-long day and finding a
> broken taillight and a business card under the windshield wiper that
> has "Sorry - call me and I'll pay for it" written on the back.
>

I think the spoofed source filtering is more a red-herring than anything
else. Its not the fix for anything related to this problem of attacks on
the internet. Spoofed or non, I can forward 1,000,000pps at your network and
it will die (most times).

This is like trying to fix a rotten decayed tooth with trident.