Threat and Vulnerability Analysis for Static and Dynamic Routing Protocols



Threat and Vulnerability Analysis for Static and Dynamic Routing Protocols

Introduction

Static routing initialize a network administrator will hand all the routing tables of routers in the network. He lay down in advance a policy routing will then enter each router on the "inputs" that we described above. While in dynamic routing, routers will fend for themselves to build their routing tables. They will talk to one another using protocols, the famous routing protocols. One might think that there is nothing left to do for the administrator! Hmm ... Not really! It's like Windows, it's "plug and play", but nothing beats a little gray matter and small nimble fingers behind! The complexity of OSPF in large networked is sometimes a good protection against less talented attackers. On the other hand, has the same complexity also often poorly configured OSPF networks spring up, which allows the attacker is made easier. This is for instance the case if all the OSPF routers are united in a large area. EIGRP was developed to minimize the time to reach so-called convergence. This is the state in which all routers in the network agree on the best routes. Nevertheless, it needs at a global or even national network for some time, until all the routers have synchronized with each other and the network has settled. Meanwhile, some routers on the new, others on the old stand and there are so-called fast routing loops, in which packets from one to the other router sent back and forth, because both believe the other is responsible.

Problem Statement

What are the threats regarding routing protocols?

Literature Review

This section outlines other research work that has been proposed or implemented in the routing area. The analysis of research work helps in understanding and design of the following literature in this paper.

Anycast Routing

Anycast is a new IP communication paradigm that has been introduced in IPv6 to facilitate service server locations. Anycast is defqed as a service, which provides a stateless hest effort delivery of an anycast datagram from one sowe node to at-least one node from the group of nodes, which serves the same anycast address. The routing systems has the responsibility to deliver the packets to the nearest node of the anycast group. The advantages of anycast are fault tolerant services, load balancing, easier router configuration, service locating services and policy routing.

RIP protocol (Routing Information Protocol)

In UNIX BSD systems included IGP. RIP is the most popular IGP in the Internet. The routing protocol uses the measure of the number of hops. When you work with routing tables that are created manually in static routing be learned from dynamic routing from the routers and thereafter applied. RIP is the most widely used IGP protocol and was developed based on the XNS RIP. It has established itself as a standard module of the BSD Unix 4.x very strong.

In all RIP routers send their own routing tables intervals as a broadcast to the other ...