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Re: Failure modes: NAT vs SPI


From: Lamar Owen <lowen () pari edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:53:58 -0500

On Monday, February 07, 2011 04:33:23 am Owen DeLong wrote:
1.    Scanning even an entire /64 at 1,000 pps will take 18,446,744,073,709,551 seconds
      which is 213,503,982,334 days or 584,542,000 years.

      I would posit that since most networks cannot absorb a 1,000 pps attack even without
      the deleterious effect of incomplete ND on the router, no network has yet had even
      a complete /64 scanned. IPv6 simply hasn't been around that long.

Sounds like a job for a 600 million node botnet.  You don't think this hasn't already crossed botnet ops minds?


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