Re: Cisco uRPF failures

[Saku Ytti <saku+nanog () ytti fi>]

On (2008-09-11 00:50 -0700), Jo Rhett wrote:

> As someone who does a lot of work talking to NOCs trying to chase down  
> attack sources, I can honestly tell you that I haven't talked to a  
> single NOC in the last 16 months who had BCP38 on every port, or even on 
> most of their ports.  And the majority response is "our (vendor) gear 
> can't handle it".   As we both know, Cisco is the largest by far vendor 
> in the marketplace, and I've heard that name more than 70% of the time.

Sound like these shops are using 3550 as router, which is common for
smaller shops, especially in EU. And indeed, 3550 would not do uRPF. 
(3560E does).


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