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[Marshall Eubanks <>]

Bill Nickless wrote:

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> >It's actually pretty easy to simulate. Grab a copy of hping2, and fire off
> >a SYN packet to the FTP port of an arbitrary multicast address - that's
> >more or less what synscan is doing.
> >Piece of cake. And of course that's a Really Bad Thing. . .
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> I agree, and posted these two notes to the MSDP working group a short time 
> ago:
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> >

Bill;

   You did indeed, now you seem clairvoyent. BUT, it seems to me that at base 
this is not a MSDP issue - it is an IGMP
issue. Wouldn't it make more sense (although, alas, more work) to rate limit 
IGMP joins ?

                                                                              
  Marshall


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