RFC 2827: BCP 38: Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing
Best Current Practice
- P. Ferguson
- D. Senie
- May 2000
- IETF publication
- General Area
Abstract
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.