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Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address


From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa () samurai sfo dead-dog com>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:37:33 -0800


On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:01:33AM +0530, alok wrote:
there was a comment from chris saying..."never possible to knw what networks
an bgp customer uplinks via you" which is very true.. ..so i assume u mean
non-bgp customers? loose or strict, rpf will not work for aasymterically
connected bgp neighbouring AS....

        How does loose not work in this scenario?

        If it's not in the global tables -at all-, it's not reachable, and
might as well be discarded.

        --msa


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