On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 01:15:27PM -0600, Tim Yardley wrote: > > As was mentioned in the "advisory/explanation" on the issue, ipfw cannot > deal with the problem due to the fact that it is stateless. > > The attack comes from random ip addresses, therefore throttling like that > only hurts your connection or solves nothing at all. In other words, the > random sourcing and method of the attack, makes a non-stateless firewall > useless. Substitute 'stateless' for 'non-stateless' above. A stateless firewall, like IPFW is the type of firewall that is useless. -- Giorgos
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