> On Saturday night my company fell victim to a DoS attack that completely
> sacked all three of our pipes (a T3 and two T1s). The resultant ethernet
> traffic made even our 100bTx local network unusable because of the
> attacker was flooding multiple portmasters on unreachable IP addresses.
> Every packet they sent bounced around our network until its TTL was
> reached. When is this disastrous behavior going to be fixed??
So put a filter on each PM saying that packets destined for addresses in
the assigned pool cannot leave via ether0.
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