When a BGP speaker loses a peer, said peer's routes are withdrawn. Regards, Jade 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", or does it > have to do with the "de-sync" that would occur within the AS? > > > Thanks for any lights. > > Regards, > > > > > Iñigo Koch > Red Segura > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html -- PGP Public Key: http://www.riven.net/~moose/key.asc Key fingerprint = C497 1FEC 6FC4 6896 6AB5 9A26 71DF 521B 0612 D1B8
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