Re: What were we saying about edge filtering?

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

Source address-based filtering in the backbone is expensive and, in many
cases, non-feasible.

Owen


--On Thursday, September 4, 2003 10:30 AM -0500 Jack Bates 
<jbates () brightok net> wrote:

> Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> > At the edge, very near the originating host there is no reason not to
> > filter these, if you find the sources you might consider asking them why
> > they didn't filter these for you...
>
> And what is the reason to not filter these in the backbone? Full spoof
> protection at some levels is near impossible. However, bogon filtering is
> not.
>
> -Jack