Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

Fri May 24 20:31:47 UTC 2002

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
David Ulevitch
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:36 AM
To: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Cc: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

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As to being immune to exploits I fail to see how.  An exploit is an exploit
-- it doesn't need to give you a root shell to accomplish a goal of
crashing the packet filter.

I'm more than happy to be proven wrong though, when is there a time when a
pseudo-halted system is "more secure"?

-davidu

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EXACTLY! Vulnerabilities [especially in socket functions (you still *are*
running a routing protocol right?)] can cause arbitrary code to execute
irrespective of your current run level. Most people would agree that having
to reboot the machine to change/check/edit anything is an unacceptable
scenario. Further, how do you filter an attack in real-time?

Deepak Jain
AiNET