just seen my first IPv6 network abuse scan, is this the start for more?

Matthias Flittner matthias.flittner at de-cix.net
Fri Sep 3 11:43:20 UTC 2010


Hi,
> Since recently we noticed  "Neighbour table overflow" warnings from
> the kernel on a lot of Linux machines. As this was very annoying for
> us and our customers I started to dump traffic and tried to find the
> cause.
sounds for me as an typicall IPv6 DoS attack. (see RFC3756)

Sheng Jiang has discussed this issue in his draft:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jiang-v6ops-nc-protection-01

regards,
-F

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