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Re: Filtering Source Addresses on gw-internet
- From: Jon Lewis
- Date: Fri Aug 15 04:12:47 1997
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Greg Ketell wrote:
> One of the IS group Engineers ran some tests in the lab.
> (Thanks Craig). It appears that, unfortunately, policy routing
> packets to Null0 is also a process switched operation.
> Apparently Null0 does not qualify as a Point-to-point interface
> with regards to the Set Interface command.
I vaguely remember hearing somewhere that routing to a loopback interface
was better than null0 for feeding unwanted packets into a black hole. Is
that case perhaps not process switched?
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