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BCP38 tester?



On 2013-03-31, at 10:48 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> Is there a program which users can run on an end-site workstation which
> would test whether they are being some link which is doing BCP38, or some
> related type of source-address ingress filtering?
> 
> I'm hoping for something that could be downloaded by users and run, and
> try to forge a few packets to somewhere useful, which could be logged 
> somehow in conjunction with some unforged packets containing a traceroute, 
> so we could build up a database of leaky networks.
> 
> On a related topic, while I know GRC Research's Steve Gibson is a bit of
> a polarizing personality, he does have a fairly sizable consumer audience,
> and might be a great distribution venue for such a thing.
> 
> Or, perhaps, is there someone on here from Ookla?
> 
> Patrick?  Could Akamai be persuaded to take an interest in this as a 
> research project?