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Subject: Re: BoS: ping flood
To: sricca@worldcom.ch (Alfy)
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:52:14 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199609150007.CAA07558@worldcom.ch> from "Alfy" at Sep 15, 96 02:07:03 am
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Alfy's thoughts were:

| 
| hello do you people know if there's a way for a system admin to prevent ping
| floods from faster machines and which may cause a hudge slowdown of the
| connection ? 

	Drop ICMP_ECHO packets at the router.  There is nothing one can do to 
	*stop* ICMP_ECHO floods, one can only ignore them...

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