which is worse? having a machine flooded from your own LAN because someone is pinging your broadcast address? Or being flooded by a hundred networks that are supposedly returning a ping to thier broadcast networks from your machine. Leon -----Original Message----- >broadcast pings to the directed broadcast address of a network seem >to be a new beloved toy of the Bad Guys out there on the net. We've >seen extraordinairy amounts of traffic produced this way for some >customers who were attacked, and the customers are really not amused >(we do volume oriented accounting). I know I could set a filter to >drop traffic to the directed broadcast address but IMHO this should >better be a nice little and simple ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request@bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <<A HREF="http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq">http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq</A>> </PRE> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <HR> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11648.html">(ASCEND) MRTG and Interface Table</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11647.html">Re: (ASCEND) SNMP traps on MAX2000 not working?</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11636.html">Re: (ASCEND) Directed Broadcasts</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11631.html">(ASCEND) CRC error after tloading 5.0Ai28?</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="maillist.html#11646"><STRONG>Main</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thrd275.html#11646"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> </BODY> </HTML>