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Re: Yahoo! Lessons Learned

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Wed Feb 9 08:49:05 2000

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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 08:26:06 -0500
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
From: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
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At 02:56 AM 02/09/2000 -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:

>eally, I think things like RPF and other *basic* filters should be a
>contractual requirement before allowing customers to connect to the
>network. Hell, im thinking Cisco and others should make it a *default*. ;)

Well, we _do_ have a unicast RPF knob, but changing defaults
is tough, due to the Principle of Least Astonishment. ;-)

Education is key here.

- paul



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