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Re: [nsp] known networks for broadcast ping attacks
- From: Alex.Bligh
- Date: Thu Jul 31 04:40:50 1997
> A cheap solution for routers who are not expected to forward LAN broadcast
> packets is to put a host route in the router to route packets to the
> broadcast address to null0. This reduces the per packet overhead of an
> access list and silently discards these bad packets.
Aren't packets sent to null0 process switched?
Alex Bligh
Xara Networks
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