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Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

  • From: Majdi S. Abbas
  • Date: Thu Nov 07 14:39:50 2002

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:01:33AM +0530, alok wrote:
> there was a comment from chris saying..."never possible to knw what networks
> an bgp customer uplinks via you" which is very true.. ..so i assume u mean
> non-bgp customers? loose or strict, rpf will not work for aasymterically
> connected bgp neighbouring AS....

	How does loose not work in this scenario?

	If it's not in the global tables -at all-, it's not reachable, and
might as well be discarded.

	--msa