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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing Defend your systems from methodized and proficient attackers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624480
Length 396 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Linux Exploitation 3. Corporate Network and Database Exploitation 4. Active Directory Exploitation 5. Docker Exploitation 6. Exploiting Git and Continuous Integration Servers 7. Metasploit and PowerShell for Post-Exploitation 8. VLAN Exploitation 9. VoIP Exploitation 10. Insecure VPN Exploitation 11. Routing and Router Vulnerabilities 12. Internet of Things Exploitation 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploiting routing protocols

In this section, we will explore many routing protocols and how to exploit each one of them, and we will learn the required defenses to protect your network.

Routing Information Protocol

Routing Information Protocol (RIP) v1 is a distance vector protocol. It sends a routing table every 30 seconds. RIP uses the hop count as a decision metric. This is an old protocol, and it can't reach more than 15 hops in its first version, ​RIPv1. ​To reach a destination, RIP uses the path with the lowest number of hops, but this is not that efficient because in some cases, there are many routes with more hop counts but with better bandwidth. For example, in the following network when using...

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