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Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?
From: "Rick Astley" <jnanog () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 19:02:49 -0500
As much as I don't want to resurrect this conversation again or beat a dead (now glued) horse: In the SOHO arena, today's NAT users may or may not opt to use SPI down the road. Many people just opt for the cheapest working solution and use defaults, so what we end up depends on what vendors like Linksys and Netgear decide. I am sure there will be customer demand for firewall functionality as well, but how much is not clear. I am talking about SOHO users because they are a big portion of the large DDoS networks and an important frontier in the fight against worm propagation. I know large mostly unused pools of client IP's make it more difficult to use traditional worm propagation methods in IPv6[1], but if customers move from IPv4 "firewalls" to IPv6 "routers", we still lose an important layer of security. 1. worm propagation strategies in an IPv6 Internet - http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/v6worms.pdf
Current thread:
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?, (continued)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Chris Adams (Jan 03)
- RE: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? michael.dillon (Jan 03)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Mark Andrews (Jan 03)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Donald Stahl (Jan 03)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? William Herrin (Jan 03)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Tim Franklin (Jan 03)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? William Herrin (Jan 03)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Mark Smith (Jan 04)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Vinny Abello (Jan 03)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 03)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Rick Astley (Jan 04)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? James Hess (Jan 04)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 04)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Jeff Aitken (Jan 07)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 07)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Deepak Jain (Jan 07)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? John Dupuy (Jan 07)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? Mark Smith (Jan 07)
- RE: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? michael.dillon (Jan 07)
- Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? John Dupuy (Jan 07)
- RE: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's? michael.dillon (Jan 08)