On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 04:08:00AM +0100, Daniel Roesen wrote: ... > > Otherwise, packets tend to get dropped by filters. > > By which ones? Folks with too much time feeding their paranoia, or is > there any actual realistic attack to prevent by filtering packets with > source 192.88.99.1? ...
As Bill pointed out, filters that contain too much actually harm the network - longer than actual attacks, perhaps. I have no quantitative evidence to say "more", and perhaps it's one of those opinion things. [Currently trying to fix a problem with same.] -- Joe Yao ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is not an official statement of OSIS Center policies.