ip6tables and multiple possible source addresses

Gert Doering gert at space.net
Wed Jan 18 10:50:13 CET 2012


Hi,

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 05:04:00PM -0800, Tom Perrine wrote:
> When writing a host-specific ip6tables rule, which address do you need 
> to list? All of the possible Global Scoped addresses?

Maybe this is an indication that host-specific ipv6 firewall rules for
"only certain hosts in an otherwise non-trusted /64 subnet" is a stupid
idea right from the start...

Of course it's completely unheard-of that evil host A could imperson 
trusted host B's address to circumvent these rules.

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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