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Re: routing between provider edge and CPE routers
From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels () cistron nl>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:04:39 +0000 (UTC)
In article <cistron.7CD4CD9D537C294D9ED9E5CE2F019106B6BC4D () MAILSERV linc2icn net>, Mike Bernico <mbernico () illinois net> wrote:
So, by accepting routes from CPE you create a huge securityvulnerabilityfor your customers, and other parties. This practice was understoodas avery bad network engineering for decades.Is there someplace I can find tidbits of information like this? I haven't been alive decades so I must have missed that memo. Other than this list I don't know where to find anyone with lots of experience working for a service provider.
You could have thought this up yourself. If you put something in production, /always/ ask yourself: if I was a hacker with bad intentions, how could I abuse this. And actually try to. I hacked my own network and machines a couple of times for fun, you learn a lot from it. Mike. -- Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job -- Douglas Adams.
Current thread:
- Re: routing between provider edge and CPE routers, (continued)
- Re: routing between provider edge and CPE routers Bruce Robertson (Jan 29)
- Re: routing between provider edge and CPE routers Petri Helenius (Jan 30)
- Re: routing between provider edge and CPE routers Christopher L. Morrow (Jan 29)
- Re: routing between provider edge and CPE routers Vadim Antonov (Jan 29)
- Re: routing between provider edge and CPE routers Serge Maskalik (Jan 29)
- Re: routing between provider edge and CPE routers E.B. Dreger (Jan 29)
- RE: routing between provider edge and CPE routers Mike Bernico (Jan 29)
- RE: routing between provider edge and CPE routers Mike Bernico (Jan 29)
- RE: routing between provider edge and CPE routers Vadim Antonov (Jan 29)
- RE: routing between provider edge and CPE routers Ray Burkholder (Jan 29)
- Re: routing between provider edge and CPE routers Miquel van Smoorenburg (Jan 30)
- Re: routing between provider edge and CPE routers Bruce Robertson (Jan 29)