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IS-IS Minimum Remaining Lifetime
draft-ginsberg-isis-remaining-lifetime-00

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (isis WG)
Authors Les Ginsberg , Paul Wells , Stefano Previdi , Bruno Decraene , Tony Przygienda , Hannes Gredler
Last updated 2016-02-01 (Latest revision 2015-07-31)
Replaced by RFC 7987
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This Internet-Draft is no longer active.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-ginsberg-isis-remaining-lifetime-00.txt

Abstract

Corruption of the Remainining Lifetime Field in a Link State PDU can go undetected. In certain scenarios this may cause or exacerbate flooding storms. It is also a possible denial of service attack vector. This document defines a backwards compatible solution to this problem.

Authors

Les Ginsberg
Paul Wells
Stefano Previdi
Bruno Decraene
Tony Przygienda
Hannes Gredler

(Note: The e-mail addresses provided for the authors of this Internet-Draft may no longer be valid.)