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The BGP TTL Security Hack (BTSH)
draft-gill-btsh-02

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
Authors Vijay Gill , John Heasley , David Meyer
Last updated 2003-05-29
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This Internet-Draft is no longer active. A copy of the expired Internet-Draft can be found at:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-gill-btsh-02.txt

Abstract

The BGP TTL Security Hack (BTSH) is designed to protect the BGP [RFC1771] infrastructure from CPU-utilization based attacks. While BTSH is most effective in protecting directly connected BGP peers, it can also provide a lower level of protection to multi-hop sessions.

Authors

Vijay Gill
John Heasley
David Meyer

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