On Sat, 5 May 2007, Daniel Melameth wrote:

> I definitely see the value of urpf-failed-especially in bgp or similar
> environments.  The question I have is, is this an "expensive" way to prevent
> spoofing?  In other works, does it use significantly more CPU time when
> compared to something like antispoof?

Yes, URPF requires an extra route lookup per packet whereas antispoof 
expands to a static set of rules.

> Also, does urpf-failed "flag"
> incoming packets that are sourced with the same IP as the firewall like
> antispoof does?

I'm not sure what you mean here, but I don't think pf 'in' rules are applied
to locally generated packets.

-d

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