On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 09:55:39AM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:31:32PM +0200, Simon Leinen
wrote:
I can spoof packets from my home broadband
connection (and probably
the 299'999 other broadband customers of that Swiss ISP can do so as
well :-). Hopefully other Swiss ISPs do this better.
sunrise freesurf used to allow this also, didn't try for some time.
(it even let source address be in the private address space)
amazing to still see this in 2005!
is there valuable argument from these ISP or is it
ignorance / badly designed networks??
on the leaf interfaces of the ISP routing topology:
(cisco)
ip verify unicast reverse-path
(linux)
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/ethN/rp_filter
there is still this good paper from cisco, it's a bit
dated but probably mean no real valuable features was added
in IOS since 2001:
http://www.cisco.com/public/cons/isp/documents/IOSEssentialsPDF.zip
bye.
--
Philippe Strauss
av. de Beaulieu 25
1004 Lausanne