On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Darren Reed wrote: > You know if anyone was of a mind to find someone at fault over this, > I'd start pointing the finger at ISP's who haven't been doing this > due to "performance reasons". To be fair, if you do this on most terminal servers (eg, Cisco 5300, Max 4000), they will collapse under the load. > They've had the ability to do it for > years and in doing so would seriously reduce the number and possibility > of "spoofing" attacks. See above. Having enough CPU available to handle spoof filtering from dialups adds a lot to costs and most ISPs simply can't afford to pay more in order to be able to provide that benefit. :-( AB
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