RE: Securing Border Routers

["Welch, Bryan" <Bryan.Welch () arrisi com>]

I ALWAYS start with the CYMRU secure bgp templates, found here:
http://www.team-cymru.org/ReadingRoom/Templates/secure-bgp-template.html

I personally would not recommend a firewall in front of your router, sufficient ACL'ing should be enough for securing 
the router itself.


Bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Kim [mailto:brandon.kim () brandontek com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 4:36 PM
To: nanog group
Subject: Securing Border Routers


Gents:

What measures do you take to protect your border routers? Our routers are running BGP so I'm interested if there is any 
way to secure them without interfering with BGP? Is it normal to put a firewall in front of the border routers?

I'm concerned about DDOS attacks mainly....although we haven't had any, I don't welcome them.....

Brandon