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Re: ICMPv6 PTBs and IPv6 frag filtering (particularly at BGP peers)


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 18:49:12 -0500

On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 09:58:21 +1100, Mark Andrews said:
In message <af5a2b92-5b08-ed5f-ca7c-a94ff1de3d9c () si6networks com>, Fernando Gont writes:
Disagree. Microsoft "reinvented" ping-o-death in IPv6, there have been
several one-packet crashes disclosed for Cisco's (an the list continues).

And they would have issued fixes for them.  Machines get attacked
from inside firewalls.  Only idiots do not apply security fixes.

Evidence suggests that our industry is highly overstocked with idiots.

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