Cisco vulnerability and dangerous filtering techniques

Patrick W. Gilmore patrick at ianai.net
Wed Jul 23 12:10:51 UTC 2003


-- On Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:13 +0100
-- Michael.Dillon at radianz.com supposedly wrote:

> P.S. The only sure way of eradicating this Cisco bug from the Internet is
> to convert the Internet to IPv6. The bug doesn't affect Cisco's IPv6 code
> and older routers whose IOS cannot be upgraded also cannot do IPv6 so
> they  cannot be used in an IPv6 Internet. Food for thought...

Right, because the IPv6 code is guaranteed to have no bugs of its own.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick



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