Hi, On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:04:47AM +0000, Dobbins, Roland wrote: > On Mar 17, 2013, at 5:38 PM, Gert Doering wrote: > > > uRPF helps everybody else > > It helps you yourself, as well - spoofed traffic is by definition > garbage. It consumes aggregation link capacity, core capacity; it > affects peering ratios and paid transit traffic tallies; it clouds > the data horizon and makes traceback of undesirable network traffic > impossible.
To play the devil's advocate - if I bill my customers by the GByte on
their port, I don't mind if it's spoofed or not... "traffic is traffic,
they pay for it, I transport it"...
But you're certainly right, I just want to point out why people might
not care, even if it's eating up their bandwidth.
gert
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