BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

Thu Mar 28 13:43:14 UTC 2013

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Adam Vitkovsky <adam.vitkovsky at swan.sk> wrote:
> It's a pity that rpf is not "on" by default for interfaces over which the
> ebgp session is configured.

Hi Adam,

Considering that's one of the key scenarios for which RPF is known to
NOT WORK reliably, I would have to disagree with that statement. Folks
running BGP expect to manipulate routes asymmetrically.

If you had said, "It's a pity that RPF is not on by default over
interfaces for which no routing protocol is configured (connected and
static routes only)" I might have agreed with you.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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