Subject: [Idr] BGP Marker in the Header

From: Hunju Park <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:26:33 -0500 (EST)

Hi,
What is the need for the BGP Marker (16 bytes) containing all FFs. It is said that it was used at
times for security but i dont think its valid anymore. If anybody wants security then he can use
TCP-MD5.

Any clues,
Park

P.S.
I went through the IDR archives before posting this and couldnt find any explanation for this!
Infact,this question was raised a long time back, but nobody answered this.

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