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1 | CraigBox | 1 | Ingress means "the act of entering.", or 'incoming'. |
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3 | Ingress Filtering is the art of filtering packets as they go into a system, as opposed to filtering them on the way out. RFC:2267 addresses this in light of "Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing". | ||
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5 | The opposite of ingress is [Egress]. | ||
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7 | See TrafficShaping. |