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Re: IPv4 mapped address considered harmful
From: Anthony DeRobertis <asd () suespammers org>
Date: 27 Aug 2002 00:18:28 -0400
On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 12:18, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
This ambiguity creates chances to malicious party to trick victim nodes. Here are a couple of examples:
How are these any different than with IPv4? I can send bad source addresses in IPv4 just as easily as in IPv6. IPv6 might even make it easier to do, e.g., reverse-path filtering (less prefixes to worry about). Any kernel that takes a packet saying it is from the local host off the wire is broken. Any firewall that allows through a packet from the Internet saying it is from the LAN is broken.
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