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

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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.

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Document ID
RFC5635
Published
August 2009
Authors
W. Kumari; D. McPherson
Status
INFORMATIONAL
Stream
IETF
Area
ops
Pages
15
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