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Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs) are supreme ruler and demoralization wireless scheme. MANETs are infrastructure less i.e. their structure is not fixed, and the nodes be able to move about and can leave the network whenever they want. The nodes are to perform as more over router and host. In MANETs, the node can be in contact with every node as their configuration is not fixed and the nodes starts transmitting the packets to each other for the establishment of the connection. To hitch the link, the nodes make use of some routing protocols like Ad-Hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV), Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), and Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector (DSDV). Security in MANET is the key matter meant for the fundamental utility of network. There are many attacks caused in MANET. Blackhole attack is one that occurs in MANET. A Black hole attack is an attack where the node, which is malicious advertise itself as having the optimal route to the destination and drops all the packets instead of forwarding further to the destination. Here, we have shown the blackhole attack in AODV and DSR. Through simulation we evaluate the performance of the two above protocols under blackhole attack. 1. INTRODUCTION Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs) are independent and deconcentrate systems or wireless systems. In the network system, MANETs always comprises of the mobile nodes which may be structures or subsystems, acting as a router as well as host. In the network, depending on each other's connection they can form different network configuration or topography by their self-arrangement power, without any fixed infrastructure. Routing protocols are the most fascinating, ambitious and challenging areas in MANET research. Many routing protocols that have been designed for MANETS such as AODV, DSR, DSDV, OLSR etc. The very intensive worry for the basic functionality in MANET is routing security. Due to the characteristics like open access medium, dynamically altering topology, deficiency of central management and monitoring systems, cooperative algorithms and deficiency of transparent defense mechanism of MANETs often ill used by attackers and endure security attacks. The network services accessibility, data integrity and confidentiality can be gained by safeguarding the security problems that have been detected within the network. Moreover, the wireless connection makes MANETs to be more susceptible to the attacks by providing access to ongoing communications. Varieties of attacks are found out in the MANETs and classified as; wormhole attack, blackhole attack, sybil attack, flooding attack, routing table overflow attack, Denial of Service (DoS), impersonation attack etc. Antecedently, many more works are performed on issues of security. One of the attack is Black Hole Attack. Blackhole Attack deeply related to reactive routing protocols in MANET like AODV and DSR. In our work we condense or concentrate our study on the two routing protocols AODV and DSR. We have analyzed the effect of Blackhole attack on the AODV and DSR routing protocol through a simulation carried