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Re: Bit-dumping [Was: Re: Peering Policy]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Heiliger)
Wed Oct 30 15:17:15 1996

Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 12:03:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Jonathan Heiliger <loco@isi.net>
To: Dima Volodin <dvv@sprint.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610301956.OAA07684@mercury.int.sprintlink.net>

On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Dima Volodin wrote:

|} Hmmmm, a good idea - make your router to accept packets with src MAC
|} addresses of its BGP peers only, no? 

What about 3rd party routing?  People sell legitimate transit at the MAEs
and other exchange points.  Some have next-hop-self set, some don't.  Not
to mention the CPU load of the acl to police the MAC addresses.


-jh-


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