Re: dsl providers that will route /24

[woods () weird com (Greg A. Woods)]

[ On Thursday, March 29, 2001 at 19:46:44 (-0800), Steve Noble wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: dsl providers that will route /24
>
> Other then software limitations, routers and switches which can't handle
> this kind of load, the inability to always know what packets are spoofed.

Well, some can, actually.  There are even machines designed almost
specifically for this kind of thing, though I'm not sure if you could
deploy them cost effectively.  The Juniper folks laughed at me for being
so pessimistic to even question their ability to do such filtering at
wire speed (though I guess I'll see in real life real soon :-).  Of
course connecting a Juniper at the edge is a rare thing, and even the
one I'll get to play with isn't going to stay there long....

> Now that's a very broad statment that's just not true.  There are reasons
> that packets with a source address not assigned to an ISP may come across
> the link and be valid, look at DirectPC.