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Re: NDP DoS attack


From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:23:00 +0000

On Jul 17, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:

In practice, the IPv4 vs IPv6 difference is that some vendors provide DHCP snooping, private VLANs and unicast flood 
protection in IPv4
land, which seems to provide a scalable way to build Ethernet networks with address validation---but there is nothing 
comparable for IPv6
right now, from any vendor.


It seems to me that IPv4 feature parity in terms of layer-2 security features should be prominently featured in 
upcoming RFPs.

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