[52682] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: what's that smell?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Tue Oct 8 14:28:55 2002
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:27:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Jason Lixfeld <jlixfeld@andromedas.com>
Cc: "'Petri Helenius'" <pete@he.iki.fi>,
"'Joe Abley'" <jabley@isc.org>, "'Mike Tancsa'" <mike@sentex.net>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000501c26ee2$b3d12e50$890711ac@housekat>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> In more cases than not, especially now adays with lots of networks
> peering all over gods creation, RPF can have some pretty detrimental
> effects if your routing is somewhat asymmetrical.
actually RPF is extremely effective especially where its highly
asymmetrical, eg at the edge. theres virtually no reason not to RPF
dialup/isdn/cable/dsl/etc customers for example.
-Dan
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