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INFORMATIONAL

Authors:

A. Barbir
S. Murphy
Y. Yang

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IETF

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rpsec (rtg)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4593

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Abstract

Routing protocols are subject to attacks that can harm individualusers or network operations as a whole. This document provides adescription and a summary of generic threats that affect routingprotocols in general. This work describes threats, including threatsources and capabilities, threat actions, and threat consequences, aswell as a breakdown of routing functions that might beattacked separately. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.