Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-07 Thread bdragon
> fine now? u can put "loose"...its NO USE!! thats what i said..there will > always be a route to the sourceall u may drop is 10.x/192.168 and > 172/16-31..that too if ur network isnt internally using it Oh, and if this ends up being the case, what's wrong with that? Less RFC1918 crap

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-07 Thread bdragon
> fine now? u can put "loose"...its NO USE!! thats what i said..there will > always be a route to the sourceall u may drop is 10.x/192.168 and > 172/16-31..that too if ur network isnt internally using it > > and if u end up putting "loose" an OSPF router ull drop valid traffic if ur >

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-07 Thread bdragon
> One of my clients is currently a victim of an over-zealous ISP > recklessly trying to implement rpf. Assuming the provider is doing the right thing by filtering routing announcements, and assuming the customer has done the right thing by informing their provider of the blocks they _might_ ann

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-07 Thread bdragon
> > Sounds like you're trying to either shoot yourself in the foot, or design a > > new too-clever-by-half way of building a VPN. > > It is called a one-way ip over satellite link to places like Australia, New > Zeland or Middle East. So it is not like we are talking about little bit of > traffic

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 08 Nov 2002 01:55:03 +0530, alok said: > take a simple scenario > AS-1 , AS-2 and AS-3 and as-4 > > AS-2 and as-3 in the middle, as-1 and as-4 multihome on them and are on > either side of as-2 and as-3..they dont peer with each other ...(though as-2 > and as-3 mebbe) > > as-1 advertise

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-07 Thread alok
if what u mean by loose is "exist only" then yes on a bgp running router probably the WHOLE INTERNET IS EXIST ONLY...that surely gives u enuf ips to spoof with?? how do u block by source? you could only know that "frrom that link between as-1 and as-2 there will be some traffic from

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-07 Thread alok
If loose rpf doesn't work, you're about to start dropping packets *anyhow*. Unless, of course, you *INTENDED* to have a topology where you're accepting traffic from another AS and forwarding it, and you don't have a return path yourself, but the destination *does* have an assymetric path. Oh..

RE: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-07 Thread H. Michael Smith, Jr.
-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-nanog@;merit.edu] On Behalf Of alok Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:00 PM To: Majdi S. Abbas; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:01:33AM +0530, alok wrote: > there

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-07 Thread alex
> Sounds like you're trying to either shoot yourself in the foot, or design a > new too-clever-by-half way of building a VPN. It is called a one-way ip over satellite link to places like Australia, New Zeland or Middle East. So it is not like we are talking about little bit of traffic. Alex

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-07 Thread bdragon
> Ok, so I'll respond to one more of the messages I missed yesterday. > > On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Matt Buford wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The only equipment I'm heard here which has serious issues related to > > > feature availability is the 12000 (which was never a p

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 08 Nov 2002 01:01:33 +0530, alok said: > there was a comment from chris saying..."never possible to knw what networks > an bgp customer uplinks via you" which is very true.. ..so i assume u mean > non-bgp customers? loose or strict, rpf will not work for aasymterically > connected bgp neig

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-07 Thread alok
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:01:33AM +0530, alok wrote: > there was a comment from chris saying..."never possible to knw what networks > an bgp customer uplinks via you" which is very true.. ..so i assume u mean > non-bgp customers? loose or strict, rpf will not work for aasymterically > connected

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-07 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:01:33AM +0530, alok wrote: > there was a comment from chris saying..."never possible to knw what networks > an bgp customer uplinks via you" which is very true.. ..so i assume u mean > non-bgp customers? loose or strict, rpf will not work for aasymterically > connected b

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-07 Thread alok
- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: alok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:41 AM Subject: Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address > > I'm opposed to some of the suggestions where to put source

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-07 Thread bdragon
> > I'm opposed to some of the suggestions where to put source address > > filters, especially placing them in "non-edge" locations. E.g. requiring > > address filters at US border crossings is a *bad* idea, worthy of an > > official visit from the bad idea fairy. > > What is bad about filtering

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-06 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
Ok, so I'll respond to one more of the messages I missed yesterday. On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Matt Buford wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The only equipment I'm heard here which has serious issues related to > > feature availability is the 12000 (which was never a particular

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-05 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
Sean puts this very nicely... I was away today so I missed the rest of the traffic and looking it over alot of it was not relevant. I'll put in some comments here though. On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Sean Donelan wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What about the other large isps?

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-04 Thread alok
> I'm opposed to some of the suggestions where to put source address > filters, especially placing them in "non-edge" locations. E.g. requiring > address filters at US border crossings is a *bad* idea, worthy of an > official visit from the bad idea fairy. What is bad about filtering facing non-

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-04 Thread Matt Buford
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The only equipment I'm heard here which has serious issues related to > feature availability is the 12000 (which was never a particularly good > aggregation device to begin with). RPF works fine on 7200, 7500, and > 6500, from my experience. I've not u

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-04 Thread bdragon
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What about the other large isps? What would it take for you to do > > something? Chris is gracious enough to show up and participate, at > > least even if it does mean he has to wear nomex. > > I'm in favor of source address filtering at the edges

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-04 Thread Daniel Senie
At 06:18 PM 11/4/2002, Sean Donelan wrote: On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What about the other large isps? What would it take for you to do > something? Chris is gracious enough to show up and participate, at > least even if it does mean he has to wear nomex. I'm in favor of sour

Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-04 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What about the other large isps? What would it take for you to do > something? Chris is gracious enough to show up and participate, at > least even if it does mean he has to wear nomex. I'm in favor of source address filtering at the edges. I'm oppos

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-04 Thread bdragon
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Charles D Hammonds wrote: > > > analogy games are fun, but it boils down to this... If I know the real > > source of an attack, I can stop it within minutes. I'm sure that my > > customers appreciate that fact. Noone will ever completely stop attacks, the > > point is to mi

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-04 Thread bdragon
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > RPF checking can only go so far. You would need RPF checking down to the > host level and I haven't heard anyone discuss that yet. Is this a reason not to do what we can now? > -Hank Let's start with getting it going in the right direction, at l

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-04 Thread bdragon
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 03:44:12PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Therefore, would it be a reasonable suggestion to ask router vendors to > > source address filtering in as an option[1] on the interface and then move > > it to being the default setting[2] after a period of time? > > Can

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-03 Thread Bob Martinez
Richard: Just my $0.02, May not be enough money. You present a solution to an unclearly defined problem. Never fear, the IETF has a packet sampling working group now, but one vendor has RFC3176 sFlow today (yesterday). I've got sFlow running on 1GbE links today and I'm planning on a 10Gb

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-31 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, October 31, 2002 1:22 PM, Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was seen to say: >> analogy games are fun, but it boils down to this... If I know the >> real source of an attack, I can stop it within minutes. > > the real source of the attack is the skript kitty who zombied the > 10,000 host

RE: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-31 Thread Randy Bush
> analogy games are fun, but it boils down to this... If I know the real > source of an attack, I can stop it within minutes. the real source of the attack is the skript kitty who zombied the 10,000 hosts which are sourcing packets at you. the intermediate sources are the 10,000 zombies, and try

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Sean Donelan
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > I think the spoofed source filtering is more a red-herring than anything > else. Its not the fix for anything related to this problem of attacks on > the internet. Spoofed or non, I can forward 1,000,000pps at your network and > it will die (most

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Jim Forster
On 10/30/02 11:26 AM, "Hank Nussbacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If every router in the world did this I could still use spoofed IP > addresses and DDOS someone. My little program could determine what subnet > I am on, check what other hosts are alive on the subnet and then when it > decides

RE: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
> > Charles > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-nanog@;merit.edu]On Behalf Of > Christopher L. Morrow > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Christopher L. Morrow; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: no ip

RE: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Charles D Hammonds
ow; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: no ip forged-source-address On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:21:00 GMT, "Christopher L. Morrow" said: > > > I'm confused.. its still a DoS attack, eh?? > > It's the difference between:

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 01:36 AM 31-10-02 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the difference between: A) Going out to your car at the end of a too-long day and finding a broken taillight. B) Going out to your car at the end of a too-long day and finding a broken taillight and a business card under the windshield

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:21:00 GMT, "Christopher L. Morrow" said: > > > I'm confused.. its still a DoS attack, eh?? > > It's the difference between: > > A) Going out to your car at the end of a too-long day and finding a > broken taillight. > > B) Go

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:21:00 GMT, "Christopher L. Morrow" said: > I'm confused.. its still a DoS attack, eh?? It's the difference between: A) Going out to your car at the end of a too-long day and finding a broken taillight. B) Going out to your car at the end of a too-long day and finding a br

RE: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread H. Michael Smith, Jr.
riginal Message- From: Christopher L. Morrow [mailto:chris@;UU.NET] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 1:21 AM To: H. Michael Smith, Jr. Cc: 'Hank Nussbacher'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: no ip forged-source-address On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, H. Michael Smith, Jr. wrote:

RE: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, H. Michael Smith, Jr. wrote: > > A fundamental effect of spoofing addresses from your local subnet is > that when the packets reach their target, the source addresses are > meaningful. I realize that the traceability of these packets has > already been mentioned, but I wan

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
I was trying to keep my mouth shut... but alas that was too tough ;( First, the ip addresses used in the attack are completely disconnected from the problem of the attack. If you get attacked, its really not relevant what ips are used, spoofed or not someone needs to stop it for you. The real pro

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Jared Mauch
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 03:34:40PM -0600, Craig A. Huegen wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:26:30PM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > > ==>Traceback would get me instantly back to the offending subnet but then it > ==>would take a bit of digging on the network admin to track me down and > ==>a

RE: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Tony Hain
Petri Helenius wrote: > > > decides to attack, it would use some neighbor's IP. The > subnet I am > > on is a /24 and there very well may be a few dozen hosts. > I could be > > real sneaky and alter my IP randomly to be any of my neighbors for > > every packet I send out. > > > This gets

RE: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread H. Michael Smith, Jr.
with meaningful vs. meaningless source addresses. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-nanog@;merit.edu] On Behalf Of Hank Nussbacher Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 2:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: no ip forged-source-address On Wed

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Daniel Senie
At 12:09 PM 10/30/2002, you wrote: "daniel" == Daniel Senie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: daniel> If the government or other large buyers require network-wide daniel> ingress filtering in any supplier they buy from (something I daniel> suggested to the folks at eBay, Schwab, etc. in our phone dan

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Petri Helenius
> decides to attack, it would use some neighbor's IP. The subnet I am on is > a /24 and there very well may be a few dozen hosts. I could be real > sneaky and alter my IP randomly to be any of my neighbors for every packet > I send out. > This gets a lot sneakier when you got your /64 on the su

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Daniel Senie
riod of time?This appeared > to have some success with reducing the number of networks that forwarded > broadcast packets (as with "no ip directed-broadcast"). > > Just my $0.02, > > > Richard Morrell > edNET > > [1] For example, an IOS config might be: > &

RE: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Daniel Senie
At 12:29 PM 10/30/2002, Tony Hain wrote: To reiterate the comment I made during the session yesterday, the places where strict rpf will be most effective are at the very edge interfaces without explicit management (SOHO). This also tends to be the place where there is insufficient clue to turn i

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Craig A. Huegen
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:26:30PM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote: ==>Traceback would get me instantly back to the offending subnet but then it ==>would take a bit of digging on the network admin to track me down and ==>applying RPF checking won't help. I think the issue we need to tackle is ensur

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Barney Wolff
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:26:30PM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > > Traceback would get me instantly back to the offending subnet but then it > would take a bit of digging on the network admin to track me down and > applying RPF checking won't help. Sure. But do you really want to give up a 95

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Hank Nussbacher
networks that forwarded > broadcast packets (as with "no ip directed-broadcast"). > > Just my $0.02, > > > Richard Morrell > edNET > > [1] For example, an IOS config might be: > > interface fastethernet 1/0 > no ip forged-source-address > > [2] Network admins would still have the option of turning it off, but this > would have to be explicitly configured. > > >

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Jared Mauch
, an IOS config might be: > > > > interface fastethernet 1/0 > > no ip forged-source-address > > Well, this already exists, doesn't it? Try the following on your > customer-facing interface: > > ip verify unicast source reachable-via rx > > >

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Lars Erik Gullerud
to have some success with reducing the number of networks that forwarded > broadcast packets (as with "no ip directed-broadcast"). [snip] > [1] For example, an IOS config might be: > > interface fastethernet 1/0 > no ip forged-source-address Well, this already exists,

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Jesper Skriver
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 06:02:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Jesper Skriver wrote: > > > Cannot be done, I certainly doesn't want RPF check to be default enabled > > on all interfaces on my routers, think for a second about asymmetric > > routing WITHIN the ISP networ

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Jesper Skriver wrote: > Cannot be done, I certainly doesn't want RPF check to be default enabled > on all interfaces on my routers, think for a second about asymmetric > routing WITHIN the ISP network. Turn it off for backbone interfaces. Regards, Rich

RE: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Tony Hain
in the ISP network. Tony > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-nanog@;merit.edu] On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 8:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: no ip forged-source-address > > > >

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Michael Lamoureux
"daniel" == Daniel Senie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: daniel> If the government or other large buyers require network-wide daniel> ingress filtering in any supplier they buy from (something I daniel> suggested to the folks at eBay, Schwab, etc. in our phone daniel> calls after the attacks a few y

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Daniel Senie wrote: > BCP 38 is quite explicit in the need for all networks to do their part. The > document is quite effective provided there's cooperation. Doesn't seem to be working. > Which interface would you filter on? Customer ingress ports on the ISP side, which

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Jesper Skriver
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 03:44:12PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Therefore, would it be a reasonable suggestion to ask router vendors to > source address filtering in as an option[1] on the interface and then move > it to being the default setting[2] after a period of time? Cannot be done, I

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Daniel Senie
At 10:44 AM 10/30/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been following the discussion on DDoS attacks over the last few weeks and our network has also recently been the target of a sustained DDoS attack. I'm not alone in believing that source address filters are the simplest way to prevent t

no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread variable
ast packets (as with "no ip directed-broadcast"). Just my $0.02, Richard Morrell edNET [1] For example, an IOS config might be: interface fastethernet 1/0 no ip forged-source-address [2] Network admins would still have the option of turning it off, but this would have to be explicitly configured.