router advertisements on open subnets
Mohacsi Janos
mohacsi at niif.hu
Tue Dec 15 11:55:19 CET 2009
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Dan White wrote:
> 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
Also look at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-ra-guard-03.txt
Regards,
Janos
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