Hi,

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 08:21:48AM +1200, Barry Greene wrote:
> Then you have this statement "It is well known that this method has 
> limitations when networks are multi-homed and there is asymmetric routing of 
> packets.??? That is false. BCP84 is wrong. uRPF has been deployed with 
> multi-homed downstream customers. It work _if_ you configure it correctly 
> (i.e. use BGP Weights).

... and *if* your customer announces all their prefixes symmetrically to 
all upstreams...

So generally speaking, for multihoming BGP customers, there are too many
failure modes to rely on uRPF - but it's fairly easily remediated if your
tool that deploys BGP prefix-filters also builds matching interface ACLs
with it.  So "whatever prefix the customer *might* announce, we'll accept
the packet".

Of course this assumes that BGP downstreams are actually filtered, but 
this particular source of depression is not really in scope :-)

Gert Doering
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