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AS path question.
- Subject: AS path question.
- From: nick at foobar.org (Nick Hilliard)
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 02:03:35 +0000
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
On 11/11/2010 01:25, Scott Weeks wrote:
> Why did that make you feel safe? Other than a bug, and ignorance of
> BGP, what is unsafe about a lotta prepends?
In theory, nothing. In practice:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080af150f.shtml
https://bugzilla.quagga.net/show_bug.cgi?id=396
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=17670
It's one of those belt+braces things that's now considered good practice.
Nick