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[jgrant <jgrant@k-net.co.uk>]

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Check out the following; it seems to me that defence measures 
would be easier in an ATM network, particularly one based on 
E.164 addresses.

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>       Title     : Network Ingress Filtering Defending Against IP Source 
>                   Address Spoofing                                        
>       Author(s) : P. Ferguson, D. Senie
>       Filename  : draft-ferguson-ingress-filtering-01.txt
>       Pages     : 7
>       Date      : 11/15/1996
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>Recent occurrences of various Denial of Service attacks which have employed
>forged source addresses have proven to be a troublesome issue for Internet 
>Service Providers and the Internet community overall.  This paper discusses
>a simple, effective and straightforward methods for using ingress traffic 
>filtering to deny attacks which use forged IP addresses.                   
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