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RFC 4593: Generic Threats to Routing Protocols

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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.

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Document ID
RFC4593
Published
October 2006
Authors
A. Barbir; S. Murphy; Y. Yang
Status
INFORMATIONAL
Stream
IETF
Area
rtg
Pages
22
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