Gi Firewall for mobile subscribers

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Thu Apr 11 18:07:53 UTC 2019



> On Apr 11, 2019, at 9:45 AM, Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 11, 2019, at 8:43 AM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
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>> I’m pretty sure that no matter how good your power management is, any cell phone’s battery will die long before its /64 can be scanned.
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> And that might be the point of the scan - not to find the addresses in use, but to deplete the battery. That would have the effect of service denial.

Why bother scanning in that case vs. just repeatedly hammering the same address?

Owen




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