Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency

Sun Jan 19 18:28:27 UTC 2014

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick at 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.

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Mukom Akong T.

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