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From: Jerry Anderson <jerry@gi.net>
Subject: Re: Ping flooding

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> 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?

  then you'll never have an asymetric route. how handy.

-brett