I agree that an attempt at a taxonomy is significant.

However I'd keep the leak and hijack separate.

Leak diverts traffic to an unintended path whereas hijack causes DoS or is
used for a man-in-the-middle.

/Pedro A. Aranda
El 26/07/2014 17:21, "Tony Tauber" <[email protected]> escribió:

> Well described, Chris.   I agree this work is relevant, appropriate and
> useful.
>
>
> Tony
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Christopher Morrow <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> as in the room, I'd hope to focus on-list on:
>>    "What is a route-leak?"
>>
>> I thought that a taxonomy:
>>    "a scheme of classification."
>>
>> of what route-leaks/hijacks are would be helpful. It's possible that
>> we could call all 'hijacks', 'mis-originations', 'valley-free
>> violations'  the same thing: "Route Leaks"... but having a definition
>> and a method to view these from either a direct neighbor OR (ideally)
>> 2 as-hops away would be much better.
>>
>> Sriram/doug's document talks about 4 types of leak, of these 1, 2, 3
>> all basically look the same to me, the original set is:
>>    1 - prefix-hijack with path to legitimate origin
>>    2 - u-turn with more specific prefix
>>    3 - u-turn with full-prefix
>>    4 - internal-prefix-leak
>>
>> To me this sounds like:
>>    1, 2, 3 are all saying the same thing: "Someone leaked all or part
>> of my prefix, but provided transit to me anyway"
>>
>> and 4 is mostly lost to me... though I suppose it might mean: "my peer
>> leaked my prefix to his transits"
>>
>> The goal for this work really ought to be:
>>   define route-leak
>>
>> Then the next follow-on is:
>>     "Do operations folks view this thing as defined to be a problem?
>> should someone fix that problem?"
>>
>> -Chris
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Tony Tauber <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Jared Mauch <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Communities are not sent by default (eg Cisco). Route leaks come for
>> free
>> >> on Cisco too.
>> >
>> >
>> > Right, I meant "intentionally implemented" communities.
>> > Anyway, so the idea is to introduce a new knob that's on by default and
>> > which is more resistant to breaking off?
>> >
>> > Not so compelling to me as to warrant a wholesale protocol extension.
>> >
>> > Tony
>> >
>> >>
>> >> On Jul 25, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Tony Tauber <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> How is this different than tagging with communities today?
>> >> In either case, the provider's correct action on the semantics is
>> needed
>> >> (and can go awry through misconfiguration).
>> >>
>> >> Tony
>> >>
>> >
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