On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>The author is expressing his wish for an ideal world. Note that he
>also accepts reality. He accepts that PMTU black holes won't go
>away, even though we might like them to do so.
>
>Hell, I think I'm behind one. ICMP is/was blocked to/from/within
>the entire university. This was to stop ping flood attacks. :-)
So you get a UDP flood instead.
Congratulations on breaking something important (PMTU, "Port unreachable",
etc.) for a false sense of security.
Did you buy a non-upgraded Cisco PIX just to block ECN as well?
-George Greer
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