Re: flooding attacks and threats doc (was Re: Comments on draft-bagnulo-multi6dt-hba-00.txt

[marcelo bagnulo braun <marcelo@it.uc3m.es>]

This is good for me

thanks, marcelo

El 19/11/2004, a las 20:10, Erik Nordmark escribió:

> Since nobody suggested text, I've added the second paragraph below in 
> section 4.3:
> <existing paragraph>
> An attacker can use the ability to perform redirection to cause
> overload on an unrelated third party.  For instance, if A and B
> are communicating then the attacker X might be able to convince A to
> send the packets intended for B to some third node C.
> While this might seem harmless at first, since X could just flood C 
> with
> packets directly, there are a few aspects of these attacks that cause
> concern.
>
> <added paragraph>
> Such an attack might be against the resources of a particular host 
> i.e., C
> in the example above, or it might be against the network infrastructure
> towards a particular IP address prefix, by overloading the routers or 
> links
> even though there is no host at the address being targeted.
>
>   Erik
------------------------------------------
Please note that my former email address
mbagnulo@ing.uc3m.es is no longer in use
Please send mail to:
marcelo at it dot uc3m dot es
------------------------------------------