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Re: Tier 2 ingress filtering


From: Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:36:53 -0700

See below

Jared Mauch

On Mar 28, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia () gmail com> wrote:

Ingress source addresses should optimally ideally be filtered at
turnup  to the list of authorized prefixes,  if uRPF cannot be
implemented  (uRPF is convenient, but not necessarily necessary to
implement ingress filtering),  then access list based on source
address,  even the nearly oldest of the most ghetto equipment should
be offering basic ACL functions.

Not everything can do acls at scale. Not all customers have anything reflecting symmetric routing creating a problem in 
the capabilities in the equipment working as desired. 

Many customers honestly don't know how their things work or think they work in ways that are not fully accurate. You 
get lots of default pointing even when they run BGP. Lots of people update prefix lists as a last resort vs 
proactively. Nobody removes things, making it hard. Automation of systems is also hard. Not impossible, but hard. I'm 
hoping some of the SDN marketing becomes reality when it comes to managing these configs. 

Maybe I will be able to have urpf work with my rpki and sdn. 

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