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Re: [RPSEC] rate limiting management traffic, redux



At 3:13 PM -0700 4/17/03, Mark Handley wrote:
 >If the management entity is a peer router at the other end of a link,
one might decide that less stringent resync mechanisms are needed, if
one does not assume a MITM attack capability.
I guess I think you need to assume MITM attack capability.  Routers
are quite often peered across LANs, and I wouldn't want to count on an
ethernet switch for routing protection.

 - Mark
OK. As a security guy I'm accustomed to thinking in terms of MITM attacks, but I didn't want to impose my biases on the problem space.

Steve
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