[olsr-dev] Selfish LQ

[giuseppe de marco]

Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 17:11 +0900, giuseppe de marco wrote:
> [...]
>   
>> It makes sense or I am loosing something?
>>     
>
> Apart from layer 1 and layer 2 attacks (see Sven-Olas mail), one can
> simply announce wrong routes (via HNA, just configure it on your
> interface, etc.).
> And all routing protocols AFAIK may suffer from routers advertising
> illegal/wrong routes. Usually this is not a serious problem because
> - on border routers (with BGPv4) one blocks neighbors advertising wrong
> routes.
> - within an AS, you have *one* organization (with interest in a working
> network)
>    and if they do not manage to get the routers working securily they
> (both the
>    admins and their bosses) are screwed anyway.
>
> 	Bernd
>   
What do you mean with "wrong" routes? If you mean route towards nothing, 
I agree: the routers in the net does the job.
Actually, I am talking about good route, in the sense they are valid as 
sequence of links towards a destination, but
the LQ of the link is not calculate properly.
G


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