Hi John,
Sounds like your upstream router's brain came online again! :-)
Regards,
Hilton
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> John Rodley
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> Subject: RE: [Leaf-user] RIP?
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> 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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