Re: Who does source address validation? (was Re: what's that smell?)

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 09:34:19 MDT, Danny McPherson <danny () tcb net>  said:

> > "ip verify unicast source reachable-via any"

> Of course, this is the IP RIB and may not include all the 
> potential paths in the BGP Adj-RIBs-In, right?  As such, 
> you've still got the potential for asymmetric routing to 
> break things.

"reachable-via any" means you're only going to drop the packet if you
don't have *ANY* route back to them.  I think that if you're in a situation
where you have asymmetric routing, and have a packet coming in on one path
that you theoretically COULD send to the destination, and the destination
has an alternate-path route back to the source, *but you don't have ANY route*,
then you're already in a "broken" state anyhow.
-- 
                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Senior Engineer
                                Virginia Tech

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