No, messing with an AS_PATH is the fundamental problem.
Cheating on AS_PATH length is just one way to exploit that fundamental
vulnerability.
See other messages for other examples of ways to exploit.
--Sandy
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Russ White wrote:
Whatever the primary purpose may have been initially, the fact is that
path length is an important input to path selection as implemented. That
justifies
an effort to ensure that the path seen by a recipient is authentic.
So the only security problem anyone faces, currently, is people cheating
on the AS Path length?
:-)
Russ
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