RE: TCP/BGP vulnerability - easier than you think

["Michel Py" <michel () arneill-py sacramento ca us>]

> Aditya wrote
> I sure hope there are no asymmetric paths on the Internet
> that will bite you when you turn on strict RPF on your
> peering interfaces </sarcasm>
> Seriously, if you do turn RPF on on peering interfaces,
> please let your peers know (plea from circa 1999)

Ah, I was waiting for someone to say something like this and make my
point, thank you. In the topic I was arguing earlier (about prefix
filtering peers, underlining the fact that imperfect filtering would not
cause traffic loss) it does indeed create asymmetry and prohibits the
use of RPF.

Michel.