[e2e] It's all my fault

rick jones perfgeek at mac.com
Thu May 17 19:28:14 PDT 2007


> Perhaps a compromise would be to reduce the number of intermediate
> hops that can be specified from 40 to say 2.  That reduces the
> "traffic multiplier" available for DoS, but allows users to select
> between a handful of paths.  Two or three paths is enough diversity to
> get a "pretty good" route if the default BGP route is temporarily
> congested.

I'll ask a naive question from the peanut gallery - I take that 
checking the source routes for duplicate IP's is insufficient to deal 
with the proposed problem?

rick jones
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