Re: Question for IPv6 w.g. on [Re: IPv6 Type 0 Routing Headerissu es]

2007-04-30 Thread Ebalard, Arnaud
Le 30 avr. 07 à 14:28, Pars Mutaf a écrit : >>> - how many hops you can make w/ a packet sized 1280? > > Maybe I'm missing something, but the attacker wouldn't > rather send millions of *very small* packets (to keep the > routers busy) instead sending elephants?? This morning, just to test it o

Re: Question for IPv6 w.g. on [Re: IPv6 Type 0 Routing Headerissu es]

2007-04-30 Thread Jeroen Massar
Hi, First off, my take on this is to disable RH0 and deprecate it. This has already been done in all the SixXS PoPs to avoid them and their users to be a source/destination of this problem. Although it would be fun to see the traffic levels go over 0.1% of IPv4 that kind of traffic is not the tra

Re: Question for IPv6 w.g. on [Re: IPv6 Type 0 Routing Headerissu es]

2007-04-30 Thread Ebalard, Arnaud
Hi *, Le 30 avr. 07 à 09:43, Pekka Savola a écrit : > Some IPv4 perspective: > -- > > IPv4 specifications (RFC 1812) require source routing to be enabled on > routers by default (a MUST). IPv4 hosts MAY process routing headers > (RFC 1122) and there are some specifications wh