RFC 7987: IS-IS Minimum Remaining Lifetime
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
Corruption of the Remaining Lifetime field in a Link State Protocol Data Unit (LSP) can go undetected. In certain scenarios, this may cause or exacerbate flooding storms. It is also a possible denial-of-service attack vector. This document defines a backwards-compatible solution to this problem.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC7987
- Published
- October 2016
- Authors
- L. Ginsberg; P. Wells; B. Decraene; T. Przygienda; H. Gredler
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- rtg
- Pages
- 9
- Also known as
- —
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