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RE: no ip forged-source-address
From: "Tony Hain" <alh-ietf () tndh net>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 15:19:12 -0800
Petri Helenius wrote:
decides to attack, it would use some neighbor's IP. Thesubnet I amon is a /24 and there very well may be a few dozen hosts.I could bereal sneaky and alter my IP randomly to be any of my neighbors for every packet I send out.This gets a lot sneakier when you got your /64 on the subnet. Specially if people start to build significantly larger subnets by default.
Just stop. This nonsense about spoofing is easier because the IPv6 address space is bigger is bogus and wasting everyone's time. When each customer is assigned a unique /48-/64 they are traceable to the accountable entity no matter what low order bits they use. If they are assigned something longer than a /64, they are likely to keep using tunneling technologies like 6to4 until they can dump the provider that is cluelessly hoarding a resource that is not scarce. Tony
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- Re: no ip forged-source-address, (continued)
- Re: no ip forged-source-address Jesper Skriver (Oct 30)
- Re: no ip forged-source-address variable () ednet co uk (Oct 30)
- Re: no ip forged-source-address Jesper Skriver (Oct 30)
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- Re: no ip forged-source-address Lars Erik Gullerud (Oct 30)
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- Re: no ip forged-source-address Barney Wolff (Oct 30)
- Re: no ip forged-source-address Craig A. Huegen (Oct 30)
- Re: no ip forged-source-address Jared Mauch (Oct 30)
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- RE: no ip forged-source-address Tony Hain (Oct 30)
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- Re: no ip forged-source-address Jesper Skriver (Oct 30)
- Re: no ip forged-source-address Daniel Senie (Oct 30)
- Re: no ip forged-source-address variable () ednet co uk (Oct 30)
- RE: no ip forged-source-address Tony Hain (Oct 30)
- RE: no ip forged-source-address Daniel Senie (Oct 30)
- Re: no ip forged-source-address variable () ednet co uk (Oct 30)
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