Subnetting Practices

[Roland Dobbins]

On Jul 14, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Gert Doering wrote:

> And indeed, router vendors need to do a bit of homework to avoid being
> an "easy target" DoS due to sequential IPv6 address scanning - but  
> then,
> they would need this for a network size of a /112 as well (still room
> for 65.000 hosts, and potential ARP/ND requests).

I don't know that it's a problem of 'homework' - it's more a matter  
of, 'don't use an addressing scheme which turns your router into a  
sinkhole'.  Nor is this particular concern tied to sequential  
scanning, per se.

;>

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