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Re: BCP38 adoption "incentives"?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Tue Sep 27 16:51:36 2016

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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:51:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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They don't need to manage the router. The raw DSL modem, cable modem, etc. =
can watch the packets and see what's assigned. This would need new hardware=
, but it's not like this is happening quickly any other way. Yes, there are=
 some consumer purchased DSL routers and cable routers, but doing what you =
can with what you can.=20

FWIW, I believe most American ISPs *DO* manage their end-user routers.=20




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Mike Hammett=20
Intelligent Computing Solutions=20
http://www.ics-il.com=20

Midwest-IX=20
http://www.midwest-ix.com=20

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

From: "Andrew White" <Andrew.White2@charter.com>=20
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net>=20
Cc: nanog@nanog.org=20
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 3:44:35 PM=20
Subject: RE: BCP38 adoption "incentives"?=20

Hi Mike,=20

This assumes the ISP manages the customer's CPE or home router, which is of=
ten not the case. Adding such ACLs to the upstream device, operated by the =
ISP, is not always easy or feasible.=20

It would make sense for most ISPs to have egress filtering at the edge (tra=
nsit and peering points) to filter out packets that should not originate fr=
om the ISP's ASN, although this does not prevent spoofing between points in=
 the ISP's network.=20

Andrew=20

NB: My personal opinion and not official communiqu=C3=A9 of Charter.=20


Andrew White=20
Desk: 314.394-9594 | Cell: 314-452-4386 | Jabber=20
andrew.white2@charter.com=20
Systems Engineer III, DAS DNS group=20
Charter Communications=20
12405 Powerscourt Drive, St. Louis, MO 63131=20



-----Original Message-----=20
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett=20
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 3:33 PM=20
Cc: nanog@nanog.org=20
Subject: Re: BCP38 adoption "incentives"?=20

It would be incredibly low impact to have the residential CPE block any sou=
rce address not assigned by the ISP. Done.=20




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Mike Hammett=20
Intelligent Computing Solutions=20
http://www.ics-il.com=20

Midwest-IX=20
http://www.midwest-ix.com=20

----- Original Message -----=20

From: "Stephen Satchell" <list@satchell.net>=20
To: nanog@nanog.org=20
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 7:31:24 AM=20
Subject: BCP38 adoption "incentives"?=20

Does anyone know if any upstream and tiered internet providers include in t=
heir connection contracts a mandatory requirement that all directly-connect=
ed routers be in compliance with BCP38?=20

Does anyone know if large ISPs like Comcast, Charter, or AT&T have put in p=
lace internal policies requiring retail/business-customer-aggregating route=
rs to be in compliance with BCP38?=20

Does any ISP, providing business Internet connectivity along with a block o=
f IP addresses, include language in their contracts that any directly conne=
cted router must be in compliance with BCP38?=20

I've seen a lot of moaning and groaning about how BCP38 is pretty much bein=
g ignored. Education is one way to help, but that doesn't hit anyone in the=
 wallet. You have to motivate people to go out of their way to *learn* abou=
t BCP38; most business people are too busy with things that make them money=
 to be concerned with "Internet esoterica"=20
that doesn't add to the bottom line. You have to make their ignorance SUBTR=
ACT from the bottom line.=20

Contracts, properly enforced, can make a huge dent in the problem of=20
BCP38 adoption. At a number of levels.=20

Equipment manufacturers not usually involved in this sort of thing (home an=
d SOHO market) would then have market incentive to provide equipment at the=
 low end that would provide BCP38 support. Especially equipment manufacture=
rs that incorporate embedded Linux in their products. They can be creative =
in how they implement their product; let creativity blossom.=20

I know, I know, BCP38 was originally directed at Internet Service Providers=
 at their edge to upstreams. I'm thinking that BCP38 needs to be in place a=
t any point -- every point? -- where you have a significant-sized collectio=
n of systems/devices aggregated to single upstream connections. Particular =
systems/devices where any source address can be generated and propagated --=
 including compromised desktop computers, compromised light bulbs, compromi=
sed wireless routers, compromised you-name-it.=20

(That is one nice thing about NAT -- the bad guys can't build spoofed packe=
ts. They *can* build, um, "other" packets...which is a different subject en=
tirely.)=20

(N.B.: Now you know why I'm trying to get the simplest possible definition =
of BCP38 into words. The RFCs don't contain "executive=20
summaries".)=20



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