Test your connectivity for World IPv6 Day

Ignatios Souvatzis ignatios at cs.uni-bonn.de
Thu Jun 9 09:38:22 CEST 2011


On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 08:21:57PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 08/06/2011 18:17, Tony Finch wrote:
> >We have had a little excitement caused by rogue RAs:
> >
> >http://fanf.livejournal.com/113996.html
> 
> This issue is really no different to rogue dhcp servers appearing on 
> internal networks in the late 1990s or rogue RIP speakings appearing on 
> networks in the late 80s / early 90s.  It's a layer 2 problem and must be 
> treated as such.

I've had my department's diskless Suns slowly, one after another, been
taken out of service by rogue ARP announcments from a broken Linux
system in a neighbouring department in the same broadcast domain in the
1990s.

Just a data point.

	-is


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