Tier-2 Explanation: As a mechanism for mitigating Denial of Service attacks, Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) comes in two flavors. The first and original implementation was uRPF strict mode. In this mode, uRPF is configured on the interface and verifies that any packet coming in the interface is sourced from a known route within the [...]
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