What were we saying about edge filtering?

Petri Helenius pete at he.iki.fi
Thu Sep 4 17:55:34 UTC 2003


Sean Donelan wrote:

>It gets even worse.  Cisco has hard-coded the list of Bogons into some of
>its latest low-end IOS versions as part of its "auto-secure" feature.
>Yes, Cisco includes warnings in the manual the user should check the
>official list at IANA; but I also know the power of defaults.  People
>upgrade their IOS versions even less often then they update their
>Windows boxes.  So we're going to see chunks of the net blocked depending
>on the release date of versions of IOS.
>
>  
>
There is an old saying which seems to fit here;

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

Pete





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