On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Erik Nordmark wrote:
> I don't know if anybody is working on host-assisted approaches.
> I can imagine interesting approaches like hosts on slow links sending
> "priority lists" upstream (to specify the relative priority of packets -
> based on a class description - that are destined towards the host) as one
> way of being able to cope with DoS flooding attacks.
Sounds a lot like a potential applicability for DiffServ marking, letting
the users configure (with a few rules) how the ISP should prioritize the
packets going towards the customer? Do this through a web page, install
the rules on a router, and you're done.
