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Re: Whither Cometh BCP38?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Mon Jun 11 11:25:16 2012

Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:24:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
In-Reply-To: <6124019.8862.1339427602063.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> Is that still true (or not, as I expect), and if common edge concentrators
> do now support easy filtering to drop packets with improper or invalid
> source addresses, is this being utilized in the wide area...

I'd say most supports it, and if anyone buys one that isn't, they're doing 
something seriously wrong in their purchasing process.

This is for IPv4, for IPv6 we're back 10 years again with very lacking 
support.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se


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