[27180] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo! Lessons Learned
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jlewis@lewis.org)
Wed Feb 9 22:14:43 2000
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 22:12:41 -0500 (EST)
From: jlewis@lewis.org
To: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
Cc: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>, nanog@nanog.org
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On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Paul Ferguson 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. ;-)
Even though the RPF knob is there, there's lots of gear running code that
either doesn't have it or blows up when it's pulled.
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