Re: [OT] Broadcast flood

[Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:50:40PM +0100, Raffaele D'Elia wrote:
> Jorge Armando Medina wrote:
> >Hello
> >
> >You can use this rules in your script, you only need to change to your
> >broadcast address:
> >/sbin/iptables -t filter -A INPUT -i <Interface> -s 10.0.0.255 -j DROP
> >/sbin/iptables -t filter -A INPUT -i <Interface> -s 0.0.0.0 -j DROP
> >/sbin/iptables -t filter -A INPUT -i <Interface> -d 255.255.255.255 -j
> >DROP
> >/sbin/iptables -t filter -A INPUT -i <Interface> -d 0.0.0.0 -j DROP
> >
> >For example my local network is 10.0.0.0/24 and therefore my broadcast
> >address is 10.0.0.255 
> 
> In this wai I drop the incoming broadcast packets at the box (even dhcp 
> requests and other useful services)... I think the windows machine need 
> not to send broadcast at all, so I want to stop them!
> 
> Any help appreciated

I think you're asking on the wrong list :)

Maybe try a Windows related mailing list or news group?

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Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>