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How four rotten packets broke CenturyLink's network for 37 hours, knackering 911 calls, VoIP, broadband

Claptrap314 Silver badge

Parsing passing?

What I don't get is why in the world one would EVERY forward a malformed packet to ones peers? The only reason to forward a packet is if you believe that the other end might be able to process it. If the packet is malformed, it gets dropped--because your peers are also going to see it as malformed.

It's not like their parser is supposed to be different.

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