Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

Thu Nov 11 03:35:41 UTC 2004

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Network.Security wrote:
> "Depending on putting devices on 1918 for security is dangerous. " -
> Simon J. Lyall.
>
> Agreed.  RFC 1918 is a good idea, it's not the law, and with that ISP's
> are not required to do anything about 1918 addr's if they choose not to.
> We receive a disturbingly large amount of traffic sourced from the 1918
                                                    ^^^^^^^
>
> That's odd, I didn't think routing to Null0 (or equivalent) was all that
> taxing, I don't want an ACL, I want it gone in the cheapest, fastest way
> possible.

that's odd... routing is a DESTINATION based problem, not a SOURCE based
one.