router advertisements on open subnets

Dan White dwhite at olp.net
Tue Dec 15 08:18:20 CET 2009


On 15/12/09 05:31 +0000, Chris Caputo wrote:
>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?

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-rogue-ra-00

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Dan White



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