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Re: Yahoo and IPv6


From: Robert Drake <rdrake () direcpath com>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 23:01:46 -0400

On 5/10/2011 12:57 AM, Jeff Wheeler wrote:
Your suggestion has two main disadvantages:
1) it doesn't work on some platforms, because input ACL won't stop ND
learn/solicit -- obviously this is bad
2) it requires you to configure a potentially large input ACL on every
single interface on the box, and adjust that ACL whenever you
provision more IPv6 addresses for end-hosts -- kinda like not having a
control-plane filter, only worse


Might need to rewrite some portion of ND to do this, but can't a cookie be encoded in the ND packet and no state kept? That should reduce the problem to one of a packet flood which everyone already deals with now.

Sorry if this has been suggested/shot down before. The ND problems keep being mentioned and I never see this proposed and it seems like an obvious solution.

Robert



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