Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:27:36 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 and full ipv6 - will it happen? |
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On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Thunder from the hill wrote: > On 21 Aug 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > > So IPv6 neither helps nor hinders > > Well, it's not too easy any more to say "I am the Alan Cox client. Send me > naked children." If you were ever hit by that or similar, you'd certainly > think differently, once you've seen that these "tools" for IPv4 are > mainstream, while the tools for IPv6 are rather rare, and the fake packets > got discarded anyway. If they're unlikely to be discarded -- I can't > agree. They just were.
Filtering is a question of proper ingress/egress setup by the ISPs. This is fairly common in the ipv4 world, but not yet common enough.
The ipv6 world hasn't yet started _route filtering_, let alone ingress/egress filtering ;)
Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".
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