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Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency
From: "Mukom Akong T." <mukom.tamon () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 22:28:27 +0400
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org> wrote:
If some third party decides to send packets to a massive number of addresses on that LAN, then the router which is forwarding these packets will attempt to perform ND for these addresses. This can trivially be used as a cache exhaustion attack, which can cause regular connectivity on that LAN to be trashed.
I totally forgot about this scenario. Yes it is a real problem. -- Mukom Akong T. http://about.me/perfexcellence | twitter: @perfexcellent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “When you work, you are the FLUTE through whose lungs the whispering of the hours turns to MUSIC" - Kahlil Gibran -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Mukom Akong T. (Jan 17)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Nick Hilliard (Jan 18)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Saku Ytti (Jan 18)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Mukom Akong T. (Jan 18)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Nick Hilliard (Jan 19)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Mukom Akong T. (Jan 19)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Saku Ytti (Jan 19)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Saku Ytti (Jan 18)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Nick Hilliard (Jan 18)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Mukom Akong T. (Jan 18)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Frank Habicht (Jan 18)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Owen DeLong (Jan 21)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Frank Habicht (Jan 21)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Owen DeLong (Jan 21)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Nick Hilliard (Jan 19)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Saku Ytti (Jan 19)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency joel jaeggli (Jan 19)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Saku Ytti (Jan 19)