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[Julian Elischer]

On 2/26/12 1:14 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Sunday, February 26, 2012 a las 01:05:11PM -0800, Julian Elischer escribió:
>
>> On 2/26/12 5:34 AM, Bob Bishop wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like to hear from somebody who understands this stuff on the relative merits of blackhole routes vs firewall drop rules for dealing with packets from unwanted sources. I'm particularly interested in efficiency and scalability. Thanks
>> the key is the word "from".  routes can only be selected on 'TO'
>> (destination) where
>> firewalls can select on any combination of header fields.
> I understand the idea of the OP as, based on the source IP addr, he
> wants to install routes that the resulting IP pkg to the source IP goes
> to "nowhere", i.e. not back to the origin IP and the 1st SYN is not
> answered back to the source IP;
yes but that is wasteful because you have used resources answering the 
incoming packet.
it would be better to have blocked it in the first place.

> 	matthias