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Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?
- From: Scott Francis
- Date: Tue Sep 17 14:15:16 2002
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 06:15:12PM -0700, lear@cisco.com said:
>
> Rafi Sadowsky wrote:
> > Maybe I'm missing something obvious but do how you get rate-limiting per
> >TCP *flow* with Cisco IOS ?
>
> There is something called flow-based RED (FRED) but it consumes a whole
> lot of memory because you have to keep track of lots more state. I
> don't know about that code. At the least what you can do is use the
> rate-limit command and rate limit *all* outbound TCP/80 traffic (or for
> that matter all access-list captured traffic). Now, doing so will make
> any but the most trivial outbound TCP/80 absolutely painful, and will
> cause tail drop. See Cathy Wittbrodt's work in this space, which was
> presented at NANOG some time ago.
>
> Note, I'm not saying you should *do* this. It may be going a bit too
> far for anti-spam.
Exactly. If operators as a group would just take the most elementary of steps
to decrease spam (along the lines Paul suggested), the effects would be so
significant that I think we wouldn't be worrying about HTTP spam traffic (at
least for the time being). The fraction of spam traffic that runs over HTTP
rather than SMTP is, I suspect, rather small.
If anybody has numbers on this, I'd be interested in hearing them one way or
the other.
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