RFC 3704:Ingress Filtering for Multihomed Networks
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... 1], is designed to limit the impact of distributed denial of service attacks, by denying traffic with spoofed addresses access to the network ...
... addresses access to the network, and to help ensure that traffic is traceable to its correct source network. As a side effect of protecting the ...
... 2827 recommends that ISPs police their customers' traffic by dropping traffic entering their networks ...
... customers' traffic by dropping traffic entering their networks that is coming from a source address not legitimately in use by the customer network ...
... customer network. The filtering includes but is in no way limited to the traffic whose source address is a so-called "Martian ...
... those machines to attack others with ICMP messages or other traffic; in this case, the attacked sites can protect themselves by proper filtering ...
... attack being difficult to trace. If the traffic leaving an edge network and entering an ISP ...
... network and entering an ISP can be limited to traffic it is legitimately sending, attacks can be somewhat mitigated: traffic ...
... traffic it is legitimately sending, attacks can be somewhat mitigated: traffic with random or improper source addresses can be suppressed before it does significant damage, and attacks ...


... - and if the packet is received on the interface which would be used to forward the traffic to the source of the packet, it passes the check. ...
... under its policy, the effect is the same as ingress filtering using an incomplete access list: some legitimate traffic is filtered for lack of a route in the filtering ...
... routing protocols as well, to make strict RPF work better in the case of asymmetric or multihomed traffic. The ISP assigns a better metric which is not propagated outside of the ...
... edge network's traffic to traffic legitimately sourced from that network, ...
... network's traffic to traffic legitimately sourced from that network, in most cases, rendering the mechanism useless as an ingress filtering ...
... ISPs use default routes for various purposes such as collecting illegitimate traffic at so-called "Honey Pot" systems or discarding any traffic they do not have a "real" route ...
... collecting illegitimate traffic at so-called "Honey Pot" systems or discarding any traffic they do not have a "real" route to, and smaller ISPs ...
... mostly usable in scenarios where default routes are used only to catch traffic with bogus source addresses, with an extensive (or even full) list of explicit routes to cover legitimate traffic ...
... traffic with bogus source addresses, with an extensive (or even full) list of explicit routes to cover legitimate traffic. Like Loose RPF ...
... edge network's traffic to traffic legitimately sourced from that network. ...
... network's traffic to traffic legitimately sourced from that network. ...


... 6. Ensure that edge networks only deliver traffic to their ISPs that will in fact pass the ingress filter ...
... Send Traffic Using a Provider Prefix Only to That Provider ...
... filters (which they should do), the third option is to route traffic being sourced from a given provider's address space ...
... network for every prefix the network uses, traffic originating from any other prefix can be summarily discarded instead ...


... Ingress filtering is typically performed to ensure that traffic arriving on one network interface legitimately comes from a computer ...
... more effective it is. One could wish that the first hop router would ensure that traffic being sourced from its neighboring end system was correctly addressed; a router further away can only ensure that it is ...
... ISP. In many cases, a simple strict RPF can be augmented by operational procedures in the case of asymmetric traffic patterns, or the feasible RPF technique to also account for other ...


... o Specify the mechanisms in more detail: there is some variance between implementations e.g., on whether traffic to multicast destination addresses ...
... network has connectivity with different properties (e.g., peers and upstreams), and wants to ensure that traffic sourced with a peer's address should not be accepted from the upstream ...



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