On Jun 22, 2011, at 4:41 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Mark Smith wrote:
> 
>> It may be getting to the point where it'd probably be easier to address 
>> these issues by taking away hosts' ability to multicast to other hosts on 
>> the same segment i.e. switch to an NBMA/hub-and-spoke mode of LAN operation, 
>> allowing the designated routers to also act as traffic sanitisers for 
>> on-link inter-host traffic.
> 
> I agree, that's the deployment model I advocate for hostile scenarios. Use 
> DHCPv6 for stateful addressing, advertise default GW via RA, don't advertise 
> any on-link prefix, and make sure hosts can't L2 communicate at all with each 
> other by means of enforcement in switches (or just separate them into 
> different L2 domains).

controller based wireless deployments can largely do this for ipv4 (and v6 to 
some extent) today. it's a fairly heavyweight approach for lightly managed 
networks.

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> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swm...@swm.pp.se
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