NDP DoS attack

Dobbins, Roland rdobbins at arbor.net
Sun Jul 17 09:23:00 UTC 2011


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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