[josefx]

It was more of a half thought out idea than something concrete, currently drawing a blank on how the network would communicate the tracking information outside. I also seem to have misremembered various things about Ethernet tagging. :(

> It would prevent the reflection portion of these attacks (a bot could only reflect traffic back into its own IP block, not towards an arbitrary global target), and knowing which networks originated the traffic would enable other countermeasures.

That makes sense.