Winstar says there is no TCP/BGP vulnerability

Wed Apr 21 16:15:39 UTC 2004

> If you have a fully redundant internal BGP, and are running all 
> 12.2S/12.3/12.2T, then you can rather safely do the internal BGP 
> passwords without a customer notice, expecting no session drop but 
> knowing if one did you'd have routes via a second BGP reflector 
> anyway.

Just an FYI, when we changed sessions that had full routing tables on
them at 2am CST with barely any traffic, it causes malloc failures on
the Cisco 7513.  So it's something I would reserve for a maintenance
window if you have one.