Generic Threats to Routing Protocols
RFC 4593, “Generic Threats to Routing Protocols”, is an Informational document published in October 2006 by A. Barbir, S. Murphy, Y. Yang. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
Routing protocols are subject to attacks that can harm individual users or network operations as a whole. This document provides a description and a summary of generic threats that affect routing protocols in general. This work describes threats, including threat sources and capabilities, threat actions, and threat consequences, as well as a breakdown of routing functions that might be attacked separately. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
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