RE: Teredo and 'firewalls' (Re: Comcast enables 6to4 relays)

2010-08-31 Thread Sean Siler
1. I completely agree with Jeroen 
2. Jack, if you have specific concerns that Jeroen hasn't answered, feel free 
to ping me off line. I own Teredo in Windows.

Sean from M$

-Original Message-
From: Jeroen Massar [mailto:jer...@unfix.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 10:40 AM
To: Jack Bates
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: Teredo and 'firewalls' (Re: Comcast enables 6to4 relays)

On 2010-08-31 19:32, Jack Bates wrote:
 Jeroen Massar wrote:

 If you have one person setting up ICS on their machine and they have 
 enabled IPv6 voila the whole network gets IPv6, that thus does not 
 solve your problem either. Or are you monitoring IPv6 RAs etc?
 
 Setting up ICS with IPv6 is user knowledge in my opinion. In addition, 
 the ICS will handle the firewall rules unless the user chooses to turn 
 it off.
 

 I think you have to move to better analyzing  monitoring your 
 network and more control over the hosts which participate in that network.

 
 My concern is as an ISP that has customers who are unaware that their 
 little routers aren't filtering all of their packets. There are a 
 million ways they might get infected or have security problems. 
 However, teredo is obviously a circumvention of protection they 
 *think* they have.

There is no circumvention here. Teredo is the same as having a P2P app (take 
Skype as a random example) that connects to an outside host and uses that to 
relay messages to something else. Allowing outside hosts to use that network to 
connect to your inbound host.

Teredo does not enable more inbound connections than before, unless a an App 
supports IPv6, but then that app was installed by the user thus they want it to 
run.

Also note that XP/2k3/Vista/Seven/2k8 all have firewalls per default that 
support IPv6 and that handle IPv4 and IPv6 exactly the same: ask the user with 
an annoying popup. Vista/Seven/2k8 even (can) do that for outbound connections.


The only thing you can do to help your users is to provide them with proper 
education and to explain them to keep up to date and run the right tools and 
not click anywhere they can and that is a mission which is near impossible.

Teredo though is far from your worst worry. Just check how many Teredo, or 
heck, IPv6 related infections you have and how many you have who have 
autodialers and the gazillion of other botnets on their hosts.

You can sleep very tight over your perceived Teredo problem ;)

Greets,
 Jeroen




RE: IPv6 consumer perception

2010-06-18 Thread Sean Siler
I'd really like to talk to the guy who presented this. Does anyone happen to 
have a contact for him? Feel free to send it privately if you do.

Sean



-Original Message-
From: Marco Hogewoning [mailto:mar...@marcoh.net] 
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 10:48 AM
To: na...@merit.edu
Subject: Re: IPv6 consumer perception


On 18 jun 2010, at 18:04, Zed Usser wrote:

 With marketing campaigns like these, no consumer will want to use IPv6, if it 
 becomes associated with privacy problems.
 
 http://torrentfreak.com/huge-security-flaw-makes-vpns-useless-for-bittorrent-100617/
 
 It is, of course, totally irrelevant whether the reporting is factually 
 correct or even based on real IPv6 issues or not, this is how public opinion 
 is formed. 
 
 The only takeaway from this to a non-technical user is that IPv6 is bad and 
 the correct solution is to turn it off.


Why do people still think consumers 'want IPv6', they want IPv6 as much as they 
want IPv4. They don't know what an IP addresses is, let alone will grasp the 
whole idea there are 2 kinds.

All they want is their googles, facebooks, twitters and the occasional download 
to work (of course nobody would admit to filesharing). And it's our job to make 
it so, wether it's via IPv6 or CGN. In the end they won't have much choice and 
if we do our jobs correctly, 95 % of them won't even notice.

Just my 2 cents,

MarcoH






RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread Sean Siler
Nope. XP does not support DHCPv6 - only Vista/Windows Server 2008 (and later) 
can do that.

Sean

-Original Message-
From: TJ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 2:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

-Original Message-
From: Charles Wyble [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 5:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
 On 18 aug 2008, at 22:23, Dale W. Carder wrote:

 DHCPv6
 - doesn't ship w/ some OS's

 Forget about it on XP,

Hmmm. MS says otherwise:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/ipv6/ipv6faq.mspx

Did you see somewhere on that site, that WinXP does DHCPv6?
I don't.  And it would be wrong, to boot.
(Not just IPv6 support - that is one simple command ...)


 but it's in Vista. You can add it to BSD/Linux without too much
 trouble (are there good, bugfree implementations for those yet?)

Bugfree? Nothing is bugfree :)
 but Mac is a problem for prospective DHCPv6 users because the network
 configuration mechanisms are fairly proprietary and DHCPv6 isn't
 likely to be supported any time soon.

H. I have yet to play with the Mac Ipv6 support (typing this on a Mac
now I should try in my lab later). What auto configuration mechanisms are
you referring to? Bonjour? Isn't there an RFC or two for Zeroconf?

No, I believe he is referring to the actual network configuration.
Not the (almost) automatic/automated service/device discovery ...



--
Charles Wyble (818) 280 - 7059

/TJ






RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

2008-08-18 Thread Sean Siler
Yep - absolutely.  I was referring to built-in support from the stack.

Dibbler is the primary third party provider we have seen for DHCPv6 support on 
downlevel clients.


Sean

-Original Message-
From: Charles Wyble [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 2:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

Sean Siler wrote:
 Nope. XP does not support DHCPv6 - only Vista/Windows Server 2008 (and later) 
 can do that.

 Sean
http://internecine.eu/systems/windows_xp-ipv6.html and
http://internecine.eu/software/dibbler_dhcpv6.html discuss how to deploy
dhcpv6 on xp. It's 3rd party but doable.