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Trusting BGP sessions

From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: 14 Nov 2000 12:29:40 -0800


On Mon, 13 November 2000, David Diaz wrote:

The cabal makes jokes "Officially there is no cabal."
In reality the fact is that peering is a trust event.  You are


Peering is a business decision.  It is not an engineering decision
nor a trust event.

Technically, can a peer BGP session do any more or less damage to
your network than a customer BGP session?  The protocol is identical.

Current thread:

Trusting BGP sessions Sean Donelan (Nov 14)
- Re: Trusting BGP sessions David Diaz (Nov 14)
- Re: Trusting BGP sessions David Diaz (Nov 14)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Trusting BGP sessions Mark Borchers (Nov 14)
- Re: Trusting BGP sessions Steven M. Bellovin (Nov 14)
- Re: Trusting BGP sessions Sean Donelan (Nov 14)
- Re: Trusting BGP sessions Sean Donelan (Nov 14)
  - Re: Trusting BGP sessions Adrian Chadd (Nov 15)
  - [doable?] peer filtering (was Re: Trusting BGP sessions) john heasley (Nov 15)
    - Re: [doable?] peer filtering (was Re: Trusting BGP sessions) Kevin Oberman (Nov 15)
    - Re: [doable?] peer filtering (was Re: Trusting BGP sessions) john heasley (Nov 15)

(Thread continues...)