On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:47:30PM +0300, Alexey E. Suslikov wrote:
> assume, your router directly plugged into ether on
> a isp's switch. assume, some nasty guy on the same
> segment trying to waste your PHYSICAL bandwidth by
> sending broad- or multicasts. yes, your packet filter
> will drop them, but prior to drop, stack must RECEIVE
> them and pf must recognize them as "to be dropped".
> 
> now, your PHYSICAL pipe is full of junk. so, Ed,
> explain me, how to shape down this junk?

it doesn't help against this attack.
slowing down the outgoing tcp acks etc slows down usual downloads tho. 

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