...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 When a BGP speaker loses a peer, said peer's routes are withdrawn.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", _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
