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Re: SYN spoofing


From: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc () iMach com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 19:36:50 -0600 (MDT)


On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Daniel Senie wrote:

Cisco implemened a feature called "Unicast RPF" That disallows
forwarding of packets on an interface where a reverse path is not
present. The command to activate it is:

      ip verify unicast reverse-path

This only works if you have CEF turned on.   And...  Turning CEF on in a
4500 series router w/64mb ram & 2 BGP views just plain isn't good.

Now, if we could get CEF to only cache non BGP routes....

- Forrest W. Christian (forrestc () imach com) KD7EHZ
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