RE: Network Operators and smurf

[Jesper Skriver <jesper () skriver dk>]

Plus the CEF code can do much more that this "verify unicast reverse-path"
thing ... nice things like WRED, advanced QOS ....

So it's needed on highend core routers ... for other purposes.

/Jesper


On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Doug Stanfield wrote:

> Don't assume it's not needed for the 75xx, or anything else for that
> matter.  Many networks are single connected to routers that are also
> acting multihomed to core providers and these boxes are being used.
>
> Doug Stanfield                        Oceanic Cable            
> Data Networking Manager               200 Akamainui St.
> dougs () oceanic com          Mililani, HI  96789
>
>
>       
>       Usially the low-end traffic is symmetrical. The problem is that
> CEF code 
>       and other anty-frauding realisations are appearing for the
> high-end 
>       routers, white they are nessesary for the low-end routers and
> useless for 
>       the core routers. For cisco, we need this future for
> 4500/4700/3640/2511 
>       ASAP, 720x slightly, and don't need it for 75xx at all.
>
>
>
>
>
>       On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Al Reuben wrote:
>
>       > Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:30:50 -0400 (EDT)
>       > From: Al Reuben <alex () nac net>
>       > To: Havard.Eidnes () runit sintef no
>       > Cc: jra () scfn thpl lib fl us, nanog () merit edu
>       > Subject: Re: Network Operators and smurf
>       > 
>       > 
>       > > This should (naturally) be implemented where routing is
> symmetric
>       > > and where a "reverse-path check" (looking up the source
> address in
>       > > the routing table to find the "expected" incoming interface
> and
>       > > checking whether the packet did indeed enter through that
> interface)
>       > 
>       > The big question is, what do you do if most of your traffic
> _is_
>       > asymetrical? I mean, a more basic check could be, "Does the
> network that
>       > this packet was sourced from exist *at all*?", or "Do I have a
> route back
>       > to the source network through *any* interface?"
>       > 
>       > That would cut down on a good amount of spoofing, like the
> idiots who
>       > spoof from 1.1.1.1 etc.
>       > 
>       > 
>       > 
>
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Jesper Skriver (JS249-RIPE), Network manager      
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