Re: [swinog] [Fwd: [Full-disclosure] DNS Smurf revisited]

On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 05:59:35PM +0200, Jean-Pierre Schwickerath wrote:

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is there valuable argument from these ISP or is it ignorance / badly designed networks??

Once someone told me they couldn't do it because it would add too much delay to the packet and that their hardware would would have to throttle the throughput if they wanted to do that on gigabit links.

performances problems on an operation which is basically a routing lookup 4 bytes aside the usual place? funky.

But then someone has to explain me how other people manage to do full NIDS inspection on gigabit links.

absolutely.