Restrictions on Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (Unicast RPF)

From: mathew Fer (mathew118@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2006 - 02:29:58 ART


Hi GS,

Can someone explains what is mean by the below 2 that was described in the
below URL, with regards to U-RPF restrictions?

Restrictions:

There are some basic restrictions to applying Unicast RPF to multihomed
clients:

1. Clients should not be multihomed to the same router because multihoming
defeats the purpose of building a redundant service for the client.

2. Customers must ensure that the packets flowing up the link (out to the
Internet) match the route advertised out the link. Otherwise, Unicast RPF
filters those packets as malformed packets.

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122cgcr/fsecur_c/fothersf/scfrpf.htm

Thanks for the reply.

Mathew



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