Experimental analysis of attacks against intradomain routing protocols

Abstract

Nowadays attacks against the routing infrastructure are gaining an impressive importance, Therefore, approaches to network security and reliability must take into account effects of routing protocols attacks and consequently must consider techniques to protect the network infrastructure. However, in spite of an increasing attention by scientists and practitioners to this issue, there is still a lack of experimental quantitative studies on the effects of routing attacks. To cope with these deficiencies, in this work we present a framework to conduct experimental analysis of routing attacks, and to prove its usefulness we study three attacks against routing protocols: route flapping on RIP, Denial of Service on OSPF by means of the Max Age attack and, finally, route forcing on RIP. We present a qualitative analysis and a performance analysis that aims to quantify the effects of routing protocol attacks with respect to routers resources and network traffic over controlled test beds.