> In real life people use - bgp ttl security, md5 passwords, control plane > protection of 179 port, inbound/outbound routes filters. So far this has > been enough.
These mechanisms do little or nothing to protect against unauthorized origination of routing information. There are plenty of examples which say it has *not* been enough, see for instance the Pakistan Telecom - Youtube incident in 2008. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no