On 2/10/11 7:53 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Monday, February 07, 2011 04:33:23 am Owen DeLong wrote: >> 1. Scanning even an entire /64 at 1,000 pps will take >> 18,446,744,073,709,551 seconds >> which is 213,503,982,334 days or 584,542,000 years. >> >> I would posit that since most networks cannot absorb a 1,000 pps attack >> even without >> the deleterious effect of incomplete ND on the router, no network has >> yet had even >> a complete /64 scanned. IPv6 simply hasn't been around that long. > > Sounds like a job for a 600 million node botnet. You don't think this hasn't > already crossed botnet ops minds?
There are more useful things to do with the compute cycles...
