Well there is money to be made in DDoS protection... See our
"friends" still hosting "those" pay sites.
Do not expect the vendors to cut themself of that market.
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Alain Hebert aheb...@pubnix.net
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On 09/29/16 11:31, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> In a message written on Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 08:44:35PM +0000, White, Andrew
> wrote:
>> This assumes the ISP manages the customer's CPE or home router, which is
>> often not the case. Adding such ACLs to the upstream device, operated by the
>> ISP, is not always easy or feasible.
> Unicast RFP should be a feature every ISP requires of all edge
> devices for at least 15 years now. It should be on by default for
> virtually all connections, and disabled only by request or when
> there are circumstances to suggest it would break things (e.g. a
> request for BGP with full tables over the link).
>
> At this point there's no excuse, anyone who has gear who can't do
> that has been asleep at the switch. It's been a standard feature
> in too much gear for too long.
>
