[6573] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Dec 20 17:33:43 1996
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 17:19:20 -0500
To: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 10:07 PM 12/20/96 +0000, Alex.Bligh wrote:
>
>> > Indeed. For instance SYN-flood the BGP port.
>>
>> Won't work easily.
>> On Criscos, the queue is per peer, not per port..
>
>Spoof the source address to that of a peer. In fact I'd have thought
>anything out of sequence would generate an RST and clear the session.
>
>Hmmm.. fragile world we live in.
>
That's what BGP peer authentication is for. :-)
- paul
