From: Jeff Shultz 

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:36:13 -0400, Geo. wrote:

> It just allows resetting of connections, the types you talk about much
> prefer to divert traffic so they are into things like bgp route spoofing
> and such which is pretty easy if you have access to a trusted router.
> Remember back in 1995 or 1996 when some ISP in Mcclean VA rerouted half of
> europe thru their network? (odd that the spooks use that same access point
> in Mcclean VA isn't it?)

I'm thinking that the telco's had a good idea with out-of-band signaling.
Having the control stuff running over RFC1918 addressed links between the
routers doesn't seem totally dumb.

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