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RFC 2827: Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing

Still current, but amended. Parts of this document are changed or extended by RFC 3704. Read both.

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This paper discusses a simple, effective, and straightforward method for using ingress traffic filtering to prohibit DoS (Denial of Service) attacks which use forged IP addresses to be propagated from 'behind' an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) aggregation point. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.

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Document ID
RFC2827
Published
May 2000
Authors
P. Ferguson; D. Senie
Status
BEST CURRENT PRACTICE
Stream
IETF
Area
—
Pages
10
Also known as
BCP38
Obsoletes:
RFC 2267
Updated by:
RFC 3704

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