[53273] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where is the edge of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bdragon@gweep.net)
Thu Nov 7 14:19:42 2002
To: alok.dube@apara.com (alok)
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:19:10 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "alok" at Nov 05, 2002 02:10:01 PM
From: <bdragon@gweep.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----------> so its a hardware limitation?....bigger cores needed
The best place to filter is the edge of one's network, in the strictest
manner possible. While possible to filter in the core of one's network,
you lose the majority of the usefulness of RPF (no strict checking, can
only check for sources which don't appear in the routing table at all).
