Re: (ASCEND) GRF / smurg / broadcast question.

To: Josh Beck <jbeck@connectnet.com>
Subject: Re: (ASCEND) GRF / smurg / broadcast question.
From: Matt Holdrege <matt@ascend.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 05:51:19 -0700
Cc: ascend-users@bungi.com
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At 10:54 AM 8/14/97 -0700, Josh Beck wrote:
>Just a question of curiousity: What can a GRF do to stop broadcast ICMP
>from entering a network (ala smurf.c)... and can it be done with a
>reasonable processor overhead, or does it kill performance. I was just
>curius what people who rely on GRF (and gated in particular) to handle
>their upstream connectivity do against this.

Like any router, you can use filters. A simple filter like this shouldn't
kill performance. 

Matt Holdrege  -  http://www.ascend.com  -  matt@ascend.com
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