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Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 24, 2017
Applicant:

Level 3 Communications, Llc, Broomfield, CO (US);

Inventor:

Thomas B. Boatwright, Denver, CO (US);

Assignee:

Level 3 Communications, LLC, Broomfield, CO (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); H04L 63/0236 (2013.01); H04L 63/1458 (2013.01); H04L 2463/144 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for detecting a spoofed source IP address on an incoming communication to any type of network, such as a telecommunications or content delivery network. Each interface to the network may include a classifier that defines or describes source IP addresses that are recognized by the interface as a valid source IP address. If a received communication packet includes a source IP address that is not included or defined by the interface classifier, the packet is considered as a possible spoofed IP address and one or more mitigation techniques may be applied to the incoming packet to prevent an attack on a device or network utilizing the spoofed packet. Such techniques may lessen or prevent an unauthorized access of the device or network or a DDOS attack on the network or device.


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