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Re: Where is the edge of the Internet?

  • From: bdragon
  • Date: Thu Nov 07 14:21:11 2002

> -----------> so its a hardware limitation?....bigger cores needed

The best place to filter is the edge of one's network, in the strictest
manner possible. While possible to filter in the core of one's network,
you lose the majority of the usefulness of RPF (no strict checking, can
only check for sources which don't appear in the routing table at all).





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