I didn't make it up to the microphone quick enough...

Tue Jun 9 15:02:08 UTC 1998

Jared Mauch wrote:
> 
>         This would be useful in a default-free network, but I'd be concerned
> with them deploying this in the lower end boxes that aren't
> default-free.  It's hard to determine what is something to drop
> or  not.  What would be nice is a
> 
> "ip drop private-blocks" or somesuch, but because many people build vpns,
> etc... with the lower end boxes also, as a vendor i'd be too concerned
> about that.

Of course, the existing RPF stuff only works on routers that support
CEF, which rules out anything but the top of the line boxes.

Alec

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