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Re: IGP protocol


From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 11:13:12 +0000

Saku Ytti wrote on 18/11/2018 10:59:
AFAIK there are no known attacks against HMAC-MD5. eBGP I don't care
about. But for iBGP I consider this a problem:

one of the few uses for tcp/md5 protection on bgp sessions can be found at IXPs where if you have an participant leaving the fabric, there will often be leftover bgp sessions configured on other routers on the exchange. Pre-configuring MD5 on BGP sessions will ensure that these cannot be used to spoof connectivity to the old network.

Nick


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