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> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:23:25 -0500 > From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <[email protected]> > > On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:37:41 -0800 > "Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The main reason I prefer ISIS is that it uses CLNS packets for > > communications and we don't route CLNS. (I don't think ANYONE is > > routing CLNS today.) That makes it pretty secure. > > Unless, of course, someone one hop away -- a peer? a customer? an > upstream or downstream? someone on the same LAN at certain exchange > points? -- sends you a CLNP packet at link level... You mean that someone is silly enough to enable CLNS on external interfaces? I mean, it's not by default on either Cisco or Juniper. I don't imagine any other routers do that, either. (Of course, SOMEONE is always that silly. But I hope the folks reading this are not.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 Attachment:
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