John Rodley wrote:
>
> Got my Oxygen LRP system working great. Now I can tell my wife we have a
> gold mine of potential routers rather than a closet full of boat anchors.
> Thanks all.
>
> My upstream router wants me to do RIP. I poked around in the various
> documentation troves and couldn't find any mention of RIP. Does any LRP
> variant do RIP?
To do RIP, you need the routed daemon. From a security standpoint,
using routed is not a good idea. In theory, you should not have to use
routed, even if the upstream router does: just put in statically
whatever routes the upstream router wants you to have.
The reason routed (and RIP) are security risks are several: one, RIP is
not designed to be secure and private. Secondly, and more importantly,
it is possible for someone to corrupt your routing tables and thus
reroute your traffic through THEIR site instead of your normal upstream
router. Hacking a site can be made MUCH easier if you can scan the
traffic - and this lets the cracker do this. Scanning any traffic from
FTP, Telnet, POP, IMAP will show passwords. Also opens the FTP server,
Telnet server, POP server, and IMAP servers up to being hacked too.
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