Summary

Recommendation ITU-T X.1210 provides source-based security troubleshooting mechanisms for security issues, as well as selection criteria and basic security guidelines of troubleshooting mechanisms.

Source-based troubleshooting security issues in Internet protocol-based networks involve techniques used to discover technical information concerning the ingress points, paths, partial paths or sources of a packet or packets causing a problematic network event, generally for the purposes of applying mitigation measures.