On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 16:46:22 +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:

>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.

:) of course not. the goal of my example is to show, "how
priorizing of incoming traffic not work" :)

btw, there are lot of Layer 2 nasties for bandwidth wasting.
and nobody can save your PIPE from ddos. this is isp's task
to block such traffic, both L2 and L3.

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