[11838] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Filtering Source Addresses on gw-internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Aug 15 04:08:45 1997
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 04:03:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Greg Ketell <gketell@cisco.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970814223308.008e0720@diablo.cisco.com.>
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Greg Ketell wrote:
> One of the IS group Engineers ran some tests in the lab.
> (Thanks Craig). It appears that, unfortunately, policy routing
> packets to Null0 is also a process switched operation.
> Apparently Null0 does not qualify as a Point-to-point interface
> with regards to the Set Interface command.
I vaguely remember hearing somewhere that routing to a loopback interface
was better than null0 for feeding unwanted packets into a black hole. Is
that case perhaps not process switched?
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