Internet vulnerabilities

Fri Jul 5 12:36:49 UTC 2002

Doesnt announcing the same routing prefix into BGP from multiple locations do
the same thing without needing a new range or enhancement in IGMP etc ?

We do this in IGP currently..

Steve

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Barry Raveendran Greene wrote:

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> FYI - for those scratching their heads on "anycast" .....
> 
> I just pushed out a paper on anycast by Chris Metz. Good foundation
> material.
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> http://www.cisco.com/public/cons/isp/essentials/ip-anycast-cmetz-03.pdf
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> > Bill Woodcock
> > Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 4:56 AM
> > To: Marshall Eubanks
> > Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> > Subject: Re: Internet vulnerabilities
> >
> >
> >
> >     > But the only IPv4 anycast
> >     > that I know of does use MSDP :
> >     >
> > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mboned-anycast-rp-08.txt
> >     > Is there a different proposal ? What's the RFC / I-D name ?
> >
> > You seem to be confusing anycast with something complicated.  It's not a
> > protocol, it's a method of assigning and routing addresses.
> >
> >                                 -Bill
> >
> >
> >
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