[56739] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: route filtering in large networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter E. Fry)
Thu Mar 13 01:05:31 2003
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 00:06:42 -0600
From: "Peter E. Fry" <pfry@swbell.net>
In-reply-to: <01b701c2e91d$4e57de60$3f154241@jackdell>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: pfry@swbell.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 12 Mar 2003 at 22:59, Jack Bates wrote:
> Nice, although it doesn't explain the purpose of having the routes if you
> have an acl. To keep viruses from attempting to contact bogons? To stop your
> internal network from surfing the bogon web which can't reply back anyways?
It's a generic config -- note the "! Default route to the Internet
[...]". Saves you some microbucks on that burstable Internet link,
or maybe some of that micro-upstream-bandwidth on your ADSL when you
get those spoofy pings. Hey -- you asked. I recommend it myself, on
a smaller scale.
(Sigh.) Your ideas are nice, but I'd have to rant all over this
list to keep y'all from filtering my compelling bogon content.
Peter E. Fry
