29 Jun
2008
29 Jun
'08
7:12 a.m.
At 03:44 a.m. 26/06/2008, Randy Bush wrote:
source routing is still requested and sometimes mandated at inter-as borders. for the reasons deepak stated. note that this does not expose any vulnerability. source routing is only dangerous to hosts.
Well, it can be used as an amplification mechanism for bandwidth consuption attacks (although it is not as effective as the Type 0 Routing header of v6, because of the limited space in the v4 header). Thanks! Kind regards, -- Fernando Gont e-mail: fernando@gont.com.ar || fgont@acm.org PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1