… The shortcomings of BGP are many and well documented, but in this paper we ask the
community to take a step back and rethink what we know about BGP. We examine three separate …

… The identification of what we believe to be more than 2,000 … counter-measures to defeat the
attacks we have found. … design more complex decision modeling schemes, in which we can …

… BGP variants [1], [18], [51]–[53] and new attacks defeating … The coverage that our vantage
points provide is difficult to … We decided to simplify the dataset and limit our analysis to the …

… BGP can be thought of as a control plane routing protocol or as an application, because it …
IOS and NX-OS devices initiate a hard reset with the command clear ip bgp ip-address [soft]…

… to do, in the sense that you want people to have an agreed… “I think we achieved further
refinement of people’s thinking of … , and by that I mean somebody’s going to have to beat up on it …

… It is particularly difficult to secure against colluding attackers. … defeat Listen’s attempts to
detect problems on the data path. … We believe that this modification to BGP policies should have …

… Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom
use is … We deliberately decided not to quantify collateral damage as a relative traffic share. …

… For a large organization like UUNET (in this case), we believe that this worst case3 of 5 465
… appear to be quite difficult to build such an infrastructure, we suggest that the decentralized …

… We find that on average, a BGP vantage point sees 35% of … Quantifying the impact of TE on
BGP stability, we find that TE … Beating bgp is harder than we thought. In: Proceedings of the …

… connection between two BGP routers (which is very hard to carry out). … We decided not to
attempt to send such an update, as that … BGP probes hitting some rate-limiting firewalls of these …