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Is the incoming router relavant in an IX?

Open AltraMayor opened this issue 7 years ago • 0 comments

In an Internet exchange (IX), Gatekeeper servers talk to multiple routers to receive traffic, but the information of which router is the hop just before a Gatekeeper receives a packet from the Internet is only available in the MAC address of the source of the packet. During some DoS attacks, it can be the case that a single peer is the source of all the trouble. How could this information be provided to Grantor servers? Is this information actually useful? If so, how could a policy use it since flows are defined as <source IP, destination IP>?

AltraMayor avatar Aug 04 '18 16:08 AltraMayor