Winstar says there is no TCP/BGP vulnerability

Christopher L. Morrow christopher.morrow at mci.com
Fri Apr 23 02:18:02 UTC 2004


On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Daniel Senie wrote:

>
> At 05:56 PM 4/22/2004, Dan Hollis wrote:
>
> >Is there any way to move BGP completely out-of-band?
> >
> >I know multihop may be out of the question but maybe someone should write
> >up a proposal for PTP links. :-)
>
> BGP over PPP? Could be specified, but that'd require replacing the use of
> TCP. Might be a bit ugly to implement, especially on larger routers with
> separate control planes.

wasn't there a PPP over SMTP spec? that sounds like a plan for this!



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