Re: Egress filters dropping traffic

[Peter Ehiwe <peterehiwe () gmail com>]

I usually do ingress acl on CE facing PE interfaces , that way I can provide one level of anti spoofing on IPs "I 
control" . I've not had the need for an egress ACL yet but then again I think it depends on network design and habits 
from Day 1.

One use case though may be to mitigate DDOS attack on a customer facing  link.

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On Jun 30, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Glen Kent <glen.kent () gmail com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Under what scenarios do providers install egress ACLs which could say for
> eg.
>
> 1. Allow all IP traffic out on an interface foo if its coming from source
> IP x.x.x.x/y
> 2. Drop all other IP traffic out on this interface.
>
> Glen