RFC 5635 on Remote Triggered Black Hole Filtering with Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)

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Subject: RFC 5635 on Remote Triggered Black Hole Filtering with Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)
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A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.

        
        RFC 5635

        Title:      Remote Triggered Black Hole Filtering 
                    with Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) 
        Author:     W. Kumari, D. McPherson
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       August 2009
        Mailbox:    warren@kumari.net, 
                    danny@arbor.net
        Pages:      15
        Characters: 30232
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-opsec-blackhole-urpf-04.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5635.txt

Remote Triggered Black Hole (RTBH) filtering is a popular and
effective technique for the mitigation of denial-of-service attacks.
This document expands upon destination-based RTBH filtering by
outlining a method to enable filtering by source address as well.  This 
memo provides information for the Internet community.

This document is a product of the Operational Security Capabilities for IP Network Infrastructure Working Group of the IETF.


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