Who does source address validation? (was Re: what's that smell?)

Wed Oct 9 12:18:34 UTC 2002

Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> writes:

> Whether this is still true, the legend lives on.  A 20% throughput hit
> won't be offset by a 12 to 18 percent bandwidth savings.  Especially on
> heavily loaded circuits.  Some network engineers are reluctant to do any
> type of packet filtering (uRPF or ACL based) because of the belief it will
> hurt performance (latency, throughput, etc).

Some network operators got burned by broken ACL implementations, too.

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