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Re: uPRF strict more


From: Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:03:40 +0300

Vast majority of access ports are stubby, with no multihoming or
redundancy. And uRPF strict is indeed used often here, but answer very
rarely if ever applies for non-stubby port.

Having said that, I'm not convinced anyone should use uRPF at all.
Because you should already know what IP addresses are possible behind
the port, if you do, you can do ACL, and ACL is significantly lower
cost in PPS in a typical modern lookup engine.

On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 04:10, Amir Herzberg <amir.lists () gmail com> wrote:

Randy, great question. I'm teaching that it's very rarely, if ever, used (due to high potential for benign loss); 
it's always great to be either confirmed or corrected...

So if anyone replies just to Randy - pls cc me too (or, Randy, if you could sum up and send to list or me - thanks!)

Amir
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On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 8:50 PM Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:

do folk use uPRF strict mode?  i always worried about the multi-homed
customer sending packets out the other way which loop back to me;  see
RFC 8704 ยง2.2

do vendors implement the complexity of 8704; and, if so, do operators
use it?

clue bat please

randy



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