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From: jade.deane at riven.net (Jade E. Deane)
Subject: Core Internet Vulnerable - News at 11:00

When a BGP speaker loses a peer, said peer's routes are withdrawn.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,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I?igo Koch
> Red Segura
> 
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