RE: [FW1] How do I stop being smurfed?

[Jonas Thambert <jonas.thambert@FW1-NOSPAMspray.se>]

Yes, but you still stop the echo-repleys 
from hitting your network.

If Exodus refuse to help you I would look for
another ISP.

/Jonas



-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Gollschewsky [mailto:tim@virgin.com]
Sent: den 3 oktober 2000 15:11
To: Firwall-1 List
Subject: Re: [FW1] How do I stop being smurfed?



I agree, but next hop outside my FW is controlled by exodus who
refuse to do anything.

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:05:44PM +0200, Jonas Thambert spoke thusly:
> A filtering router would probably do it...
> 
> /Jonas
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Gollschewsky [mailto:tim@virgin.com]
> Sent: den 3 oktober 2000 14:39
> To: Firwall-1 List
> Subject: [FW1] How do I stop being smurfed?
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> One of the sites I manage is currently under a heavy smurf attack, the
> only way I can think of to stop it is to go upstream to my provider
> and ask them to block echo-replys (or just ICMP) to the target machine,
> but my provider (exodus) refuses to help.   :(
> 
> Is there ANYTHING else I can do?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tim.
> 
> 
>
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