RE: Good design for LAN

From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 11:35:44 GMT-3


At 11:20 AM +0000 3/4/03, Weidong Xiao wrote:
>Hi,
>
>If I have to choose between /24 and /23, I would go with /24. The
>reason is that if any host go wild and send loads of broadcast,
>smaller number of hosts would be affected. Remember the slammer
>attack a month ago.
>
>Cheers,
>Weidong

port-level broadcast rate limiting should solve any single-host storm problem.



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