{SPAM?} Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN
Richard Bennett
richard at bennett.com
Sat Nov 7 20:36:34 UTC 2009
It's not all that easy unless the dude has hacked the device driver.
Owen DeLong wrote:
> And of course, a rogue RA station would _NEVER_ mess with that bit
> in what it transmits...
>
> Uh, yeah.
>
> Owen
>
> On Nov 7, 2009, at 2:41 AM, Richard Bennett wrote:
>
>> The Wi-Fi MAC protocol has a pair of header bits that mean "from AP"
>> and "to AP." In ad-hoc mode, a designated station acts as an AP, so
>> that's nothing special. There are a couple of non-AP modes for direct
>> link exchanges and peer-to-peer exchances that probably don't set
>> "from
>> AP" but I'm not sure about that.
>> Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 07, 2009, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> As already said, wireless in infrastructure mode (with access points)
>> always sends traffic between clients through the access point, so a
>> decent AP can filter this.
>>
>>
>> How does the client determine that the traffic came from the AP versus
>> another client?
>>
>>
>>
>> Adrian
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Richard Bennett
>> Research Fellow
>> Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
>> Washington, DC
>
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Richard Bennett
Research Fellow
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Washington, DC
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