[36202] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: dsl providers that will route /24
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Thu Mar 29 23:19:43 2001
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From: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:16:59 -0500 (EST)
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[ On Thursday, March 29, 2001 at 18:40:09 (-0800), David Schwartz wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: dsl providers that will route /24
>
> It's less secure if peoplee can spoof packets without detection. Filtering
> is one means of solving this problem. There are others. Filtering is not a
> perfect solution, there are others that are even better than filtering, they
> just take more work.
In an operations context anything that takes more work literally can not
be better. Filters are automatic, tireless, and usually flawless too
(at least once they're correctly deployed).
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