How to preempt rogue RAs?

Gert Doering gert at space.net
Sat Oct 30 19:55:49 CEST 2010


Hi,

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 07:50:38PM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
> Another thing I noticed is that the local 6to4 adapter is instantly
> disabled when I activate transmission of proper RAs from the upstream
> router in my lab.  To me that's an indication that ICS might not be the
> culprit after all...but if it's not ICS I'm out of ideas on what it
> could be.  :-(

Maybe it's ICS, but not "Win 7 ICS", but Vista...

(Just guessing what other consumer OS has IPv6 on-by-default and might not 
be "up to speed" regarding sane defaults).

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
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did you enable IPv6 on something today...?

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