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Re: soBGP deployment

  • From: william(at)elan.net
  • Date: Thu May 26 06:27:21 2005

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Jeroen Massar wrote:

In short, you mean setting up, eg a Quagga box behind the existing core
infra that one has, feeding it a full feed, which matches the current
best paths one has in it's RIB and verifying the paths.

This is somewhat similar how the detection of GRH (*1) works already for
IPv6 tables, that is it nightly fetches the route6 objects from various
registries(*1) and checks if a AS is registered to be allowed to
announce a certain prefix, if not it marks it in the looking glass as
being a bad route which is supposed to be routed from the registered AS.

Now, if BGP would have some signature over the the path, one could
verify this in the same method and have the exact thing happening above.
GRH sends out mailings every day, though one could of course implement
the above in realtime. If one would mirror the full table, one could
even analyze the alternative paths to see if those are valid.

What you mention, does indeed not break current operations and would be
quite transparent.
If I understand it right soBGP is kind of like that. In short different
between SBGP and soBGP is that SBGP sends AS Path as signed data where
as soBGP AS Path is separate and security is in a detached signatures
which can optionally be sent along in bgp session as well. There also seem to be policy differences on how it is determined if path is good
or bad, but overall the concept is not as bad as I originally thought.

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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
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