Ping flooding

Sorry, i was unclear. It should read "forwarding return packets
back to the original source".

In other words -- assume that forwards and backwards paths are
both crossing the same interface. That assumption is practically
always valid for tail circuits.

--vadim

That's once again a matter of defaults -- routers should _by
default_ discard all packets from interfaces which they won't
use for forwarding those packets back.

Why?