Good point. I missed the part about choking his leased line. The only way
to stop that would be upstream as you stated.
""Kent Hundley"" wrote in message
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> You can lock your network down all you want but without getting help from
> your provider you cannot keep packets from the Internet from entering your
> WAN connection and eating your bandwidth.
>
> I can assure you that no matter how locked down your network, anyone
> anywhere in the world can flood your link, even if every packet that
reaches
> your router/firewall is blocked. The only way to block the traffic from
> reaching your WAN line is to block it at the provider level.
>
> This is what the poster asked in the original question, how to keep
traffic
> which he is already blocking from "choking his leased line".
>
> -Kent
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Dennis H
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 11:44 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: UrlScan: Save from Code Red or Nimda [7:20887]
>
>
> Come on Kent... there's much one could do without asking ones provider
> anything... I have my network totally locked down and I didn't ask my
> provider squat...
>
>
>
>
> ""Kent Hundley"" wrote in message
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> > You need to ask your provider for assistance. The level of assistance
> will
> > vary from provider to provider.
> >
> > -Kent
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > MJ
> > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 5:44 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: UrlScan: Save from Code Red or Nimda [7:20887]
> >
> >
> > I recently seen this tool from microsoft called
> > urlscan.
> > This seems to be good tool to save the IIS from the virus attack of
Nimda
> > and code red. But one problem is still there that lot of hackers are
> trying
> > to get in to the server and thus creating lot of traffic and choking up
my
> > leased lines.
> > Well how to combat this ?
> >
> >
> > Mukul
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