On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:

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the packets as possible. Nebulous filtering and dropping of miniscule amounts of traffic in the core of a large network is just a waste of effort and false panacea.

Agreed.

uunet does operate lots of dialup RAS though correct? any reason why urpf is not reasonable there?

Nobody I know terminates a dial connection on a *core router* ;-) //Alif Alif Terranson OpSec Engineering Mgr. Operations Security Dept. Savvis Communications Corp. (314) 628-7602 Voice (618) 558-5854 Cell (314) 628-7710 Fax