IPv6 Firewall on CPEs - Default on or off

Philipp Kern phil at philkern.de
Tue Nov 27 13:37:42 CET 2012


Hi,

am Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 01:04:14PM +0100 hast du folgendes geschrieben:
> > We saw this in ~2000, where people had file shares open, and they 
> > connected their computer directly to the LAN ETTH connection and
> > then someone "stole" their pictures. There were articles in the press
> > about how easy neighbours could see each others files.
> I assume you're talking about an IPv4-only access?
> How did you solve this problem?

as far as I know that was a L2 attack, you were able to reach the other
customers on the PPPoE ethernet segment. Which was fun for those who did
PPPoE directly without a router.

But I can't seem to find that news article…

Kind regards
Philipp Kern



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