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Re: BCP 38 coverage if top x providers ...


From: Laurent Dumont <admin () coldnorthadmin com>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:04:43 -0400

Wouldn't you want BCP38 policies to be as close as possible to the traffic sources? Instead of creating more "fake" traffic?

And at the same time, partial filtering doesn't seem as a very effective way to fight spoofed traffic on a large scale.

On 03/24/2017 11:07 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Jared Mauch:

On Nov 19, 2016, at 9:13 PM, Frank Bulk <frnkblk () iname com> wrote:

My google fu is failing me, but I believe there was a NANOG posting a year
or two ago that mentioned that if the top x providers would
implement BCP 38
then y% of the traffic (or Internet) would be de-spoofed.  The point was
that we don't even need everyone to implement BCP 38, but if the largest
(transit?) providers did it, then UDP reflection attacks could be
minimized.

If someone can recall the key words in that posting and dig it up, that
would be much appreciated.
A double lookup of the packet is twice as expensive and perhaps
impractical in some (or many) cases.
Do you actually have to filter all packets?

Or could you just sample a subset and police the offenders, on the
assumption that if you don't implement an anti-spoofing policy, you
end up with near-constant leakage?


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