Re: Core Internet Vulnerable - News at 11:00

[Alexander Bochmann <full-disclosure () FreiNet de>]

...on Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 07:03:01PM -0500, Jade E. Deane wrote:

> When a BGP speaker loses a peer, said peer's routes are withdrawn.

And then there's flap dampening...

Alex.

> On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 16:20 -0500, Alerta Redsegura wrote:
> > If I recall well, a BGP speaker only sends/receives updates to route tables,
> > since the whole routing table is stored when the connection is initiated.
> > Therefore, closing a connection would only prevent further route updates
> > between the two attacked devices.
> > I don??t understand why this is considered as a "serious threat", 

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