[59835] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cisco vulnerability and dangerous filtering techniques
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Tue Jul 22 17:33:39 2003
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:50:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: "Austad, Jay" <JAustad@temgweb.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <288FAF5565A1A74EA5E35C39E7EE1D42077FE20B@mail.temgweb.com>
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> > Pray tell, the virus will also get BGP feeds to determine
> > where the edges
> > are?
>
> It could poll different looking glasses...
And I could be the Pope...
How many thousands of "polls" do you think a looking glass can handle
simultaneously? I am all for the doomsday scenarios, but lets make them a
little bit less sci-fi, shall we? How about "it would create valid looking
OSPF packets with garbage in them?" or "create valid looking STP packets"
Alex
