On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:27:58 PDT, Leo Bicknell said: > The funny thing is, no one does this anymore. We turned off RIP, > turned off routed, and invented things like HSRP to handle router > redundancy. These things weren't done because someone was bored, > no, they were done because these RIP deployments failed, repeatedly > and often. Any device could broadcast bad information, and they > did. It could be a legitimate network admin plugging a cable into > the wrong jack, or it could be a hacker who rooted a machine and > is injecting bad information on purpose.
Has senility set in, or wasn't there even an incident where somebody advertised 127/8 via RIP - and lots of nodes *believed* it, even though they should have realized that they had an interface on that network already? (And yes, I know of *multiple* failures of broadcasting a default route and getting swamped as a result - this one was 127/8 specifically)...
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