alt Hacker NewsWouldn't that need a huge amount of extra hardware to do that filtering when the routers in each customer's home are mostly idle? Just setting egress filtering as the default and letting users override that if they need to for some reason should be a good outcome. The few that do change the default hopefully know what they are doing and won't end up part of a DDoS but they'll be few anyway so the impact will still be small.
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The router in the customer's home cannot be trusted. With cable at least, you are able to bring in your own modem and router. Even if not, swapping it is easy, you just have to clone the original modem's MAC. In practice this is probably quite common to save money if nothing else (cable box rental is $10+/mo).
Note that spoofing source IPs is only needed by the attacker in an amplification attack, not for the amplyfing devices and not for a "direct" botnet DDOS.
> Wouldn't that need a huge amount of extra hardware to do that filtering
20 years ago Cisco (probably much longer) routers were able to do this without noticeable performance overhead (ip verify unicast reverse-path). I don't think modern routers are worse. Generally filtering is expensive if you need a lot of rules which is not needed here.