IP Packet Filtering

• Any packet coming into your network with a source address of your internal network
• Any packet coming into your network not with a destination address of your internal network
• Any packet leaving your network not with a source address of your internal network
• Any packet leaving your network with a destination address of your internal network.
• Any packet coming into your network or leaving your network with a private, loopback, or reserved source or destination address
  • 10.x.x.x/8,
  • 172.16.x.x/12
  • 192.168.x.x/16
  • 127.0.0.0/8.
• Source routed packets
• Packets with the IP options field set
• Reserved, DHCP auto-configuration and Multicast addresses
  • 0.0.0.0/8
  • 169.254.0.0/16
  • 192.0.2.0/24
  • 224.0.0.0/4
  • 240.0.0.0/4

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