RFC 3704:Ingress Filtering for Multihomed Networks
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... links, whether by ISPs or by end-sites, is not really that much different from the more typical "downstream" or "upstream" ingress filtering ...
... However, it's important to note that with mixed upstream/downstream and peering links, the different links ...


... Failing to provide any ingress filter at all essentially trusts the downstream network to behave itself, which is not the wisest course of action. However, especially in the case of very large networks ...
... upstream network or ensuring in the downstream network that packets the upstream ...


... DoS attacks with unrouted source addresses. In the downstream interfaces it can only be used as a contract verification ...



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