IPv6 woes - RFC

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Tue Sep 28 19:02:22 UTC 2021


> Heh, NAT is not that evil after all. Do you expect that all the home
> people will get routable public IPs for all they toys inside house?

in ipv6 they can.  and it can have consequences, see

    NATting Else Matters: Evaluating IPv6 Access Control Policies in
    Residential Networks; 
    Karl Olson, Jack Wampler, Fan Shen, and Nolen Scaife

    https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-030-72582-2_22.pdf

the ietf did not give guidance to cpe vendors to protect toys inside
your LAN

randy


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