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This draft is a work item of the Operational Security Capabilities for IP
Network Infrastructure Working Group of the IETF.
Title : Network Reconnaissance in IPv6 Networks
Author(s) : Fernando Gont
Tim Chown
Filename : draft-ietf-opsec-ipv6-host-scanning-02.txt
Pages : 36
Date : 2013-07-15
Abstract:
IPv6 offers a much larger address space than that of its IPv4
counterpart. The standard /64 IPv6 subnets can (in theory)
accommodate approximately 1.844 * 10^19 hosts, thus resulting in a
much lower host density (#hosts/#addresses) than is typical in IPv4
networks, where a site typically has 65,000 or less unique addresses.
As a result, it is widely assumed that it would take a tremendous
effort to perform address scanning attacks against IPv6 networks, and
therefore classic IPv6 address scanning attacks have been considered
unfeasible. This document updates RFC 5157 by providing further
analysis on how traditional address scanning techniques apply to IPv6
networks, and exploring some additional techniques that can be
employed for IPv6 network reconnaissance. In doing so, this document
formally obsoletes RFC 5157.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-opsec-ipv6-host-scanning
There's also a htmlized version available at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-opsec-ipv6-host-scanning-02
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http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-opsec-ipv6-host-scanning-02
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