Re: IPV6 question

2011-10-28 Thread Trever L. Adams
On 10/28/2011 08:37 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > According to most recent RFCs IPv6 addresses starting with 0xFD are > considered unique local addresses. This is more or less equivalent > to the IPv4 private addresses. > > I have the following IPv6 address configured on eth0 > > fd00:::41/32 >

IPV6 question

2011-10-28 Thread Paolo Galtieri
According to most recent RFCs IPv6 addresses starting with 0xFD are considered unique local addresses. This is more or less equivalent to the IPv4 private addresses. I have the following IPv6 address configured on eth0 fd00:::41/32 When I run ifconfig eth0 I get: eth0 Link encap:Ethe

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday, January 02, 2011 05:40:00 pm Genes MailLists wrote: >How does one manage your internal ip6 network so that an ISP change > (which under NAT/ipv4 is irrelevant) - is straightforward/clean to manage ? Somehow I missed this message that started the whole thread... Shame on me. There a

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-08 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 11:27 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > On 1/8/11 11:16 AM, Michael H. Warfield wrote: - snip - > > Oh lord WHY can we NOT make this myth go away?!?! The IPv6 spec does > > NOT mandate the USE of IPsec. It only mandates the SUPPORT of IPsec. > > To be IPv6 compliant you must

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-08 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/08/2011 01:16 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote: . Best practices in IPv4 are not > (necessarily) best practices in IPv6 and vice versa. > I'd love to see a best practices writeup on ipv6 ... since you point out ignorance is one of the problems (self confessed participant in that but am

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-08 Thread James McKenzie
On 1/8/11 11:16 AM, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 10:57 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: >> On 1/3/11 6:44 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: >>> On 01/03/2011 06:31 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote: There is a wide spread myth that NAT and the fact that you are on different addresse

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-08 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 10:57 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > On 1/3/11 6:44 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: > > On 01/03/2011 06:31 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > >> There is a wide spread myth that NAT and the fact that you are on > >> different addresses some how bestows upon you some measure of secur

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-08 Thread James McKenzie
On 1/3/11 6:44 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 01/03/2011 06:31 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote: >> There is a wide spread myth that NAT and the fact that you are on >> different addresses some how bestows upon you some measure of security. >> As a leading security researcher, let me impress upon you

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, January 06, 2011 06:22:06 pm Michael H. Warfield wrote: > You're just talking nameology here with this. Call it what you want, > there is still a state engine at the heart of the NAT driving the NAT > mappings. Sent a reply off-list, as this type of discussion is really off-topic f

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-06 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 13:30 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday, January 05, 2011 07:51:19 pm Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 17:26 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > > > I refer in particular to Cisco IOS NAT, IOS 12.4(23) mainline on a > > > 7206/NPE-G1, using NAT pools and ove

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, January 06, 2011 01:30:45 pm Lamar Owen wrote: > That is, given the NAT translation table snippet: > > tcp 10.10.10.10:52650 192.168.1.118:52650 74.125.67.99:8074.125.67.99:80 > tcp 10.10.10.10:1769 192.168.1.166:1769 74.125.67.99:8074.125.67.99:80 > > And assuming no other t

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, January 05, 2011 07:51:19 pm Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 17:26 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > > I refer in particular to Cisco IOS NAT, IOS 12.4(23) mainline on a > > 7206/NPE-G1, using NAT pools and overloading. Incoming packets > > addressed to the outside interf

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-06 Thread 夜神 岩男
--- Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 17:40 -0500, Genes MailLists > wrote: > >How does one manage your internal ip6 network > so that an ISP change > > (which under NAT/ipv4 is irrelevant) - is > straightforward/clean to > > manage ? > > The simple answer is *DNS*. > > Only the [Kerber

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-05 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 17:26 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Tuesday, January 04, 2011 12:52:42 pm Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > You have the exact same situation if you use IPv4 and NAT. The outside > > system > > has the IPv4 of your router, and can use that IP to scan for any open port > > on > >

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-05 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, January 04, 2011 12:52:42 pm Marko Vojinovic wrote: > You have the exact same situation if you use IPv4 and NAT. The outside system > has the IPv4 of your router, and can use that IP to scan for any open port on > your inside machine. Namely, once your NAT-ed machine initiates the >

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-04 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/04/2011 11:52 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2011 01:44:36 Robert Nichols wrote: >> On 01/03/2011 06:31 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote: >> The problem that I see is that any system to which I have ever made a >> connection now has a nice, routable IPv6 address back to the m

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 19:44 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote: > The problem that I see is that any system to which I have ever made a > connection now has a nice, routable IPv6 address back to the machine > that made the connection and can start probing that machine to see if > any vulnerable services m

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 21:46 -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 07:31:37PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > The IPv6 firewalls on Linux are just as good as the IPv4 firewalls. I > > didn't start participating in IPv6 until I had decent firewalls. But > > that was 10 years ago

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 07:31:37PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > The IPv6 firewalls on Linux are just as good as the IPv4 firewalls. I > didn't start participating in IPv6 until I had decent firewalls. But > that was 10 years ago now at this point. That's old old news. That's not my conce

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 19:44 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 01/03/2011 06:31 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > There is a wide spread myth that NAT and the fact that you are on > > different addresses some how bestows upon you some measure of security. > > As a leading security researcher, let

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/03/2011 06:31 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > There is a wide spread myth that NAT and the fact that you are on > different addresses some how bestows upon you some measure of security. > As a leading security researcher, let me impress upon you that nothing > could be further from the truth

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 18:09 -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:14:58PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > NAT is a vile and evil abomination which was created in a half assed > > effort to extend the life of IPv4. > Are you really proposing that all IPv6 addresses for LANs b

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Steven Stern
On 01/03/2011 06:09 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:14:58PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: >> NAT is a vile and evil abomination which was created in a half assed >> effort to extend the life of IPv4. > > Are you really proposing that all IPv6 addresses for LANs be exposed to

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:14:58PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > NAT is a vile and evil abomination which was created in a half assed > effort to extend the life of IPv4. Are you really proposing that all IPv6 addresses for LANs be exposed to the Internet? That's what I think I'm reading.

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 11:00 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 01/03/2011 01:55 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > On 01/02/2011 04:40 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > >> How does one manage your internal ip6 network so that an ISP change > >> (which under NAT/ipv4 is irrelevant) - is straightforw

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 21:01 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 01/02/2011 08:54 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > > >> Probably the simplest approach is to use a router appliance that groks > >> IPv6 for the WAN, and IPv4 for the LAN. On a Linux system, if you want > >> it to be your firewall--and a

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/03/2011 01:55 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 01/02/2011 04:40 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> How does one manage your internal ip6 network so that an ISP change >> (which under NAT/ipv4 is irrelevant) - is straightforward/clean to manage ? >> > > At the moment I use radvd and update

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 12:55:03AM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > I hate to spoil your fun, but I have my internal network receiving IPv6 > addresses. I wouldn't have it any other way. :) *Shrug*. Strokes. As long as you're not flooding the Internet with your internal IP addresses, good on

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-03 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 17:40 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: >How does one manage your internal ip6 network so that an ISP change > (which under NAT/ipv4 is irrelevant) - is straightforward/clean to > manage ? The simple answer is *DNS*. I don't email or web browse to numerical IP addresses. No

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-02 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 01/02/2011 04:40 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > How does one manage your internal ip6 network so that an ISP change > (which under NAT/ipv4 is irrelevant) - is straightforward/clean to manage ? > At the moment I use radvd and update my DNS entries in my local bind server. -- users mailing

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-02 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 01/02/2011 05:33 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: > Frankly, I don't expect most, if any, internal LANs to cut over to IPv6. > There's no reason or point, and a lot of headaches. Instead, it should > become the standard*outside* your router/firewall, and you can stay > with IPv4 inside. I hate to spoil

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-02 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Sunday, January 02, 2011 04:40:00 pm Genes MailLists wrote: > There was some earlier discussion (mainly about NAT being now > irrelevant in the face of ipv6). > > Question for you experts: > >How does one manage your internal ip6 network so that an ISP change > (wh

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-02 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/02/2011 08:54 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > >> Probably the simplest approach is to use a router appliance that groks >> IPv6 for the WAN, and IPv4 for the LAN. On a Linux system, if you want >> it to be your firewall--and a lot of us are hard-headed enough to do >> so--I'd put in two NICs an

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-02 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/02/2011 06:33 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 06:19:48PM -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: >> This issue must have a simple solution surely noone would design a >> spanking new world and then make it hard for a not uncommon situation >> (new isp) ? > > Well, think again. There

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-02 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 06:19:48PM -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > This issue must have a simple solution surely noone would design a > spanking new world and then make it hard for a not uncommon situation > (new isp) ? Well, think again. There are reasons people are dragging their feet going to

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-02 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/02/2011 06:11 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 01/02/2011 06:08 PM, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >>> There was some earlier discussion (mainly about NAT being now >>> irrelevant in the face of ipv6). >&g

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-02 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/02/2011 06:08 PM, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> There was some earlier discussion (mainly about NAT being now >> irrelevant in the face of ipv6). >> >> Question for you experts: >> >> How do

Re: ipv6 question

2011-01-02 Thread Itamar Reis Peixoto
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >  There was some earlier discussion (mainly about NAT being now > irrelevant in the face of ipv6). > >  Question for you experts: > >   How does one manage your internal ip6 network so that an ISP change > (which under N

ipv6 question

2011-01-02 Thread Genes MailLists
There was some earlier discussion (mainly about NAT being now irrelevant in the face of ipv6). Question for you experts: How does one manage your internal ip6 network so that an ISP change (which under NAT/ipv4 is irrelevant) - is straightforward/clean to manage ? thanks! -- users