draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mib-07.txt

BCAST Implementation for NS2

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6. Acknowledgements

   We would like to acknowledge the assistance of all the members of the
   Inter-Domain Routing Working Group, and particularly the following
   individuals:

   Yakov Rekhter, Juniper Networks
   Rob Coltun, Redback
   Guy Almes, Internet2
   Jeff Honig, BSDi
   Marshall T. Rose, Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.
   Dennis Ferguson, Juniper Networks
   Mike Mathis, PSC
   John Krawczyk, Bay Networks
   Curtis Villamizar, Avici
   Dave LeRoy, Pencom Systems
   Paul Traina, Juniper Networks
   Andrew Partan, MFN
   Robert Snyder, cisco Systems
   Dimitry Haskin, Nortel
   Peder Chr Norgaard, Telebit Communications A/S
   Joel Halpern, CTO Longitude Systems, Inc.


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   Nick Thille, RedBack Networks
   Bert Wijnen, Lucent
   Shane Wright, NextHop
   Mike McFadden, Riverstone Networks, Inc.
   Jon Saperia, JDS Consulting, Inc.
   Wayne Tackabury, Gold Wire Technology, Inc
   Bill Fenner, AT&T Research

   The origin of this document is from RFC 1269 "Definitions of Managed
   Objects for the Border Gateway Protocol (Version 3)" written by Steve
   Willis and John Burruss, which was updated by John Chu to support
   BGP-4 in RFC 1657.  The editors wish to acknowledge the fine work of
   these original authors.





































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7. References

[BGP4]      Rekhter, Y., Li, T., "A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", RFC
            1771, March 1995.


[BGP4APP]   Rekhter, Y., Gross, P., "Application of the Border Gateway
            Protocol in the Internet", RFC 1772, March 1995.


[RFC2571]   Harrington, D., Presuhn, R., and B. Wijnen, "An Architecture
            for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks", RFC 2571, April
            1999.

[RFC1155]   Rose, M., and K. McCloghrie, "Structure and Identification
            of Management Information for TCP/IP-based Internets", STD
            16, RFC 1155, May 1990.

[RFC1212]   Rose, M., and K. McCloghrie, "Concise MIB Definitions", STD
            16, RFC 1212, March 1991.

[RFC1215]   M. Rose, "A Convention for Defining Traps for use with the
            SNMP", RFC 1215, March 1991.

[RFC2578]   McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J.,
            Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser, "Structure of Management
            Information Version 2 (SMIv2)", STD 58, RFC 2578, April
            1999.

[RFC2579]   McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J.,
            Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser, "Textual Conventions for
            SMIv2", STD 58, RFC 2579, April 1999.

[RFC2580]   McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J.,
            Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser, "Conformance Statements for
            SMIv2", STD 58, RFC 2580, April 1999.

[RFC1157]   Case, J., Fedor, M., Schoffstall, M., and J. Davin, "Simple
            Network Management Protocol", STD 15, RFC 1157, May 1990.

[RFC1901]   Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser,
            "Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2", RFC 1901, January
            1996.

[RFC1906]   Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser,
            "Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network
            Management Protocol (SNMPv2)", RFC 1906, January 1996.



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[RFC2572]   Case, J., Harrington D., Presuhn R., and B. Wijnen, "Message
            Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management
            Protocol (SNMP)", RFC 2572, April 1999.

[RFC2574]   Blumenthal, U., and B. Wijnen, "User-based Security Model
            (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management
            Protocol (SNMPv3)", RFC 2574, April 1999.

[RFC1905]   Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser,
            "Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network
            Management Protocol (SNMPv2)", RFC 1905, January 1996.

[RFC2573]   Levi, D., Meyer, P., and B. Stewart, "SNMPv3 Applications",
            RFC 2573, April 1999.

[RFC2575]   Wijnen, B., Presuhn, R., and K. McCloghrie, "View-based
            Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network
            Management Protocol (SNMP)", RFC 2575, April 1999.

[RFC2570]   Case, J., Mundy, R., Partain, D., and B. Stewart,
            "Introduction to Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network
            Management Framework", RFC 2570, April 1999.




























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8. Security Considerations

   There are a number of management objects defined in this MIB that
   have a MAX-ACCESS clause of read-write:

      bgpPeerAdminStatus
      bgpPeerConnectRetryInterval
      bgpPeerHoldTimeConfigured
      bgpPeerKeepAliveConfigured
      bgpPeerMinASOriginationInterval
      bgpPeerMinRouteAdvertisementInterval

   These objects should be considered sensitive or vulnerable in most
   network environments.  The support for SET operations in a non-secure
   environment without proper protection can have a negative effect on
   network operations.  Incorrect configuration of these parameters may
   cause BGP peer connections to terminate early or to send more routes
   under a flapping condition.

   There are a number of managed objects in this MIB that may be
   considered to contain sensitive information in the operation of a
   network.  For example, a BGP peer's local and remote addresses may be
   sensitive for ISPs who want to keep interface addresses on routers
   confidential to prevent router addresses used for a denial of service
   attack or spoofing.

   Therefore, it may be important in some environments to control read
   access to these objects and possibly to even encrypt the values of
   these object when sending them over the network via SNMP.  Not all
   versions of SNMP provide features for such a secure environment.

   SNMPv1 by itself is not a secure environment.  Even if the network
   itself is secure (for example by using IPSec), even then, there is no
   control as to who on the secure network is allowed to access and
   GET/SET (read/change/create/delete) the objects in this MIB.

   It is recommended that the implementers consider the security
   features as provided by the SNMPv3 framework.  Specifically, the use
   of the User-based Security Model RFC 2274 [14] and the View-based
   Access Control Model RFC 2275 [17] is recommended.

   It is then a customer/user responsibility to ensure that the SNMP
   entity giving access to an instance of this MIB, is properly
   configured to give access to the objects only to those principals
   (users) that have legitimate rights to indeed GET or SET
   (change/create/delete) them.




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9. Authors' Address

   Jeff Haas
   NextHop Technologies
   517 Williams
   Ann Arbor, MI 48103-4943
   Phone: [phone]
   Fax:   [phone]
   Email: [e-mail]

   Jeff Johnson
   RedBack Networks, Inc.
   1389 Moffett Park Drive
   Sunnyvale, CA  94089
   Phone: [phone]
   Email: [e-mail]

   Steve Willis
   Argon Networks
   25 Porter Road
   Littleton, MA 01450
   Phone: [phone]
   Fax:   [phone]
   Email: [e-mail]

   John Burruss
   Windata Inc.
   543 Great Road
   Littleton MA 01460
   Phone: [phone]
   Email: [e-mail]

   John Chu
   Cosine Communications
   1200 Bridge Parkway
   Redwood City, CA 94065
   Phone: [phone]
   Email: [e-mail]

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