[135494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 filtering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Franck Martin)
Wed Jan 26 00:22:14 2011
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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:20:00 +1300 (FJST)
From: Franck Martin <franck@genius.com>
To: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
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Cc: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
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Well we filter icmp due to exploits, if no exploits, then we can let the whole of icmpv6 through. Or is there something terribly dangerous in icmpv6 already?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: "nanog group" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 26 January, 2011 6:13:26 PM
Subject: Re: IPv6 filtering
On Jan 26, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
> Ok filtering ipv6 and ipv6-icmp is understood, it is like ipv4.
Be advised, ICMPv6 is *not* like ICMP in IPv4, and knowing what can be filtered, what to filter, and where to filter it is considerably more complex than in IPv4 - which, given the prevalence of broken PMTU-D alone, is apparently not well-understood in many quarters, heh.
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