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   Message 13,574 of 14,669   
   Rick Jones to glen herrmannsfeldt   
   Re: Extending IPv4 with source translati   
   09 Sep 10 17:23:32   
   
   From: rick.jones2@hp.com   
      
   glen herrmannsfeldt  wrote:   
   > With clients on ephemeral ports, though, it takes a lot of   
   > packets for a DoS attack.  Not so hard for NFS.  I am not   
   > so sure what NFS/UDP does with a properly formatted reply   
   > to a request that it didn't send.   
      
   I believe there is a transaction ID in the RPC headers and if it does   
   not match-up, I would certianly *expect* it to be dropped.   
      
   rick jones   
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