router advertisements on open subnets

Chris Caputo ccaputo at alt.net
Tue Dec 15 06:31:04 CET 2009


On an open subnet, such as a public WiFi network, what is to stop a guest 
host from announcing IPv6 router advertisements (ICMPv6 type 134) to the 
subnet, thus competing with the intended gateway and potentially drawing 
traffic through/to it for analysis or blackholing?

Chris


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