Re: Network Operators and smurf

This should (naturally) be implemented where routing is symmetric and where a "reverse-path check" (looking up the source address in the routing table to find the "expected" incoming interface and checking whether the packet did indeed enter through that interface)

The big question is, what do you do if most of your traffic _is_ asymetrical? I mean, a more basic check could be, "Does the network that this packet was sourced from exist *at all*?", or "Do I have a route back to the source network through *any* interface?" That would cut down on a good amount of spoofing, like the idiots who spoof from 1.1.1.1 etc.