RE: dsl providers that will route /24

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

[ On Thursday, March 29, 2001 at 18:40:09 (-0800), David Schwartz wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: dsl providers that will route /24
>
>       It's less secure if peoplee can spoof packets without detection. Filtering
> is one means of solving this problem. There are others. Filtering is not a
> perfect solution, there are others that are even better than filtering, they
> just take more work.

In an operations context anything that takes more work literally can not
be better.  Filters are automatic, tireless, and usually flawless too
(at least once they're correctly deployed).

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