On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Devon True wrote:

I am curious what the purpose of uRPF's "allow-default" option is? Based
on Cisco's page explaining the command, I interpret that it allows uRPF
to match on a default route... but doesn't that defeat the purpose of uRPF?

See below.

interface Vlan100
ip verify unicast source reachable-via any allow-default
!
ip route 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 null0
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 x.x.x.x

uRPF would allow Vlan100 to use any source IP address except
192.168.0.0/24. Is that correct?

Yes but that's not the interface where you would apply it. You apply 'allow-default' on your upstream interface that you point your default route to. Ie. if you set your default-route at a particular interface or IP address, then you add urpf 'allow-default' on the interface that leads to your upstream gateway.

Antonio Querubin
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