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Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter...

  • From: Paul Ferguson
  • Date: Fri Dec 20 17:23:59 1996

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

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