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Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is used to distribute routing information within networks. Since RIP has no built-in authentication, an attacker could forge a RIP packet, claiming his host "X" has the fastest path out of the network. All packets sent out from that network would then be routed through X, where they could be modified or examined. An attacker could also use RIP to effectively impersonate any host, by causing all traffic sent to that host to be sent to the attacker's machine instead.

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RIP Routing Attack