On 30/08/2008, at 9:58 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Alex Pilosov:
We've demonstrated ability to monitor traffic to arbitrary
prefixes. Slides for presentation can be found here:
http://eng.5ninesdata.com/~tkapela/iphd-2.ppt
The interesting question is whether it's acceptable to use this trick
for non-malicious day-to-day traffic engineering.
The technique of path stuffing ASes who you do not want to receive an
announcement is called AS PATH poisoning. It's a fairly well known
trick.
--
Nathan Ward
