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Re: getting routes from internet facing routers


From: Shreyas Zare <shreyas () technitium com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:25:53 +0530

Hi,

Just have a proper ACL on the router, it will do the job. Also, many
routing protocols support authentication. So that can provide some
security though.

Regards,

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM, martin <martiniscool () gmail com> wrote:

Thanks for the reply Chris.  Having re-read my original e-mail I see I
woreded it really badly :-(  The part from my original mail I'm
actually interested in is this line:

I've also heard that it's possible to get routes from a router/firewall facing the public domain without having to 
login to it

In other words, that potential hackers can start to build a diagram of
my network by sending crafted packets to my internet facing router and
seeing what private IP routes (ie 10.0.0.0, 192.168 etc etc) routes
lie inside.

I've googled this and found nothing.  Do you (or anybody else) have
any ideas how to get these routes out when you don't have access to
the router ?  Is it by using ICMP ?

Also, is it possible to "extract" routes from an internet facing
router regardless of what routing protocol it's running, or even if
it's running just static routing ?

Hope I've explained myself better this time ?

M

2009/7/21 Chris <cweindel () gmail com>:
If you're routing with BGP, you can filter it by blocking port 179.  all
ICMP does it block those types of packets - it won't help you block
advertised routes.

of course, the ultimate externally facing router is in front of a firewall /
in a DMZ...

C

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