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Re: aggregation & table entries

  • From: Christopher L. Morrow
  • Date: Fri Oct 15 15:31:20 2004 
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Paul Vixie wrote:

>
> > > And what do you do with a BGP customer which sends you traffic from
> > > prefixes he doesn't want to announce to you? There are such customers.
> > > Fail filter ACL?
> >
> > This has been my question with uRPF from the beginning. You can solve this
> > on for some networks, but it doesn't scale very well. Especially where you
> > really don't know that your customer's customer is doing this.
>
> It's 2004, and so, your customers who want to do this have to explain why,
> and you have to maintain extra-ordinary filters for such customers, at either
> your cost or the customer's cost.

ah-ha! Patriot-Act!