Talk:Ingress filtering

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The information on the ingress filtering and network ingress filtering should in fact be merged. They refer to the same thing. - Daniel Senie (co-author of RFC 2267, RFC 2827 / BCP 38)

Ds236 02:10, 29 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

I concur, when looking your info on either, you're most likely interested in the other as well. fno (talk) 12:27, 29 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Examples of filtering

Outbound filtering of packets by an edge network is an example of egress, not ingress filtering. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.210.249.81 (talk) 09:52, 24 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

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Examples of filtering