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Fight Back
What is fight back?
Every LSA that is circulating containing wrong information will be corrected by its owner
Papers on OSPF security suggest that
Fight Back corrects the damage of most attacks
Many theoretical attacks are not worth the effort just to cause a brief topology change



[ “An Experimental Study of Insider Attacks for the OSPF Routing Protocol”, Vetter et al.
“On the Vulnerabilities and Protection of OSPF Routing Protocol”, Wang and Wu ]
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