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From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
If you have links from both ISP A and ISP B and decide to send traffic out ISP A's link sourced from addresses ISP B allocated to you, ISP A *should* drop that traffic on the floor. There is no automated or scalable way for ISP A to distinguish this "legitimate" use from spoofing; unless you consider it scalable for ISP A to maintain thousands if not more "exception" ACLs to uRPF and BCP38 egress filters to cover all of the cases of customers X, Y, and Z sourcing traffic into ISP A's network using IPs allocated to them by other ISPs?
I gather the usual customer response to this is "if you don't want our $50K/mo, I'm sure we can find another ISP who does."
Come on, John. Anyone spending 50K a month belongs in PI space with BGP, and they're a big enough customer for the ISPs to both put exception rules in their ingress filters even if they're not. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274