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RIP Routing Attacks

Routing Information Protocol (RIP) Routing attacks is often seen in routers which implemented the original RIP. Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is used to distribute routing information within networks, such as shortest-paths, and advertising routes out from the local network. The original version of RIP has no built in authentication, and the information provided in a RIP packet is often used without verifying it. 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.

RIP Routing Attack Mitigation

The version 2 of RIP was enhanced with a simple password authentication algorithm, which makes RIP attack harder to happen. IPsec VPN provides a way to keep routing information encrypted among the routers implemented the IPsec VPN.

RIP Routing Attack

Related Terms

RIP, RIP Attack, IPsec VPN