Network Security Principles and Practices

Chapter 4. Secure Routing

This chapter covers the following key topics:

• Building Security into Routing Design— This section talks about some considerations you should keep in mind when implementing routing protocols in networks.

• Router and Route Authentication— This section deals with ways to authenticate routers to each other before accepting routing updates.

• Directed Broadcast Control— This section talks about the need to control directed broadcasts on a router.

• Black Hole Filtering— This section discusses an alternative technique based on Null interface routing that you can use instead of using access control lists.

• Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding— This section talks about how URPF can stop spoofing and certain other types of attacks from ...