Thanks Dave. Upstream router suddenly decided against RIP.
John Rodley
>
> 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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