On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 07:50:17PM +1100, 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". They've had the ability to do it for > years and in doing so would seriously reduce the number and possibility > of "spoofing" attacks. Thats always made me wonder... the global tier 1 that I have intimate knowledge has been doing ingress filtering for years (day one as far as I can see) for leased line customers, and the dial devices do their own source filtering. Even on the remaining 4700 access routers CPU hasn't been a problem -- John Payne http://www.sackheads.org/jpayne/ johnat_private http://www.sackheads.org/uce/ Fax: +44 870 0547954 Euro-folk register in the spam-fight - http://www.euro.cauce.org/
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