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Re: Actions to quiet the Smurf amplifiers?


From: Phil Howard <phil () whistler intur net>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:16:59 -0500 (CDT)

It doesn't seem to be working for me.  What version of IOS does this new
feature show up in?  Why hasn't it been mentioned before?  Or is this not
similar enough to be usable to block smurf and other forgery?


Danny McPherson writes...

Cisoc already has a feature similar to this, "ip verify unicast reverse-path".

-danny

Danny McPherson writes...

ingress filtering .. that's a novel idea :-)  

"smart" ingress filtering, as opposed to hard coded filtering, which
is already done a lot.  It would come at some costs, as every packet
would have to have 2 routing lookups done for it, one of which must
return or compare against all routes, not just the best route.

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