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Re: Request for comment -- BCP38

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Mon Sep 26 12:15:21 2016

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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:15:11 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160926160433.14119.qmail@ary.lan>
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Are you talking BGP level customers or individual small businesses' broadband service? 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

Midwest-IX 
http://www.midwest-ix.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> 
To: nanog@nanog.org 
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 11:04:33 AM 
Subject: Re: Request for comment -- BCP38 

>If you have links from both ISP A and ISP B and decide to send traffic out 
>ISP A's link sourced from addresses ISP B allocated to you, ISP A *should* 
>drop that traffic on the floor. There is no automated or scalable way for 
>ISP A to distinguish this "legitimate" use from spoofing; unless you 
>consider it scalable for ISP A to maintain thousands if not more 
>"exception" ACLs to uRPF and BCP38 egress filters to cover all of the cases 
>of customers X, Y, and Z sourcing traffic into ISP A's network using IPs 
>allocated to them by other ISPs? 

I gather the usual customer response to this is "if you don't want our 
$50K/mo, I'm sure we can find another ISP who does." 

From the conversations I've had with ISPs, the inability to manage 
legitimate traffic from dual homed customer networks is the most 
significant bar to widespread BCP38. I realize there's no way to do 
it automatically now, but it doesn't seem like total rocket science to 
come up with some way for providers to pass down a signed object to 
the customer routers that the routers can then pass back up to the 
customer's other providers. 

R's, 
John 

PS: "Illegitimate" is not a synonym for inconvenient, or hard to handle. 


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