[17689] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: I didn't make it up to the microphone quick enough...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec H. Peterson)
Tue Jun 9 11:11:30 1998
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 11:02:08 -0400
From: "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp@hilander.com>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
CC: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>, nanog@merit.edu, chuegen@quadrunner.com
Jared Mauch wrote:
>
> This would be useful in a default-free network, but I'd be concerned
> with them deploying this in the lower end boxes that aren't
> default-free. It's hard to determine what is something to drop
> or not. What would be nice is a
>
> "ip drop private-blocks" or somesuch, but because many people build vpns,
> etc... with the lower end boxes also, as a vendor i'd be too concerned
> about that.
Of course, the existing RPF stuff only works on routers that support
CEF, which rules out anything but the top of the line boxes.
Alec
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