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Re: turning on comcast v6

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Jan 6 00:45:40 2014

To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Jan 2014 10:10:24 -0600."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 00:44:06 -0500
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

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On Sat, 04 Jan 2014 10:10:24 -0600, Leo Bicknell said:

> What happens when Joe Home User buys a new Linksys and wants to plug it=
 in to
> get a firmware update before installing it?  Are we really supposed to =
expect
> that every Joe Homeowner understands RA Guard and configures it for the=
ir home
> network?

If Joe Home User has a rogue device spewing RA's, he probably has a bigge=
r
problem than just not having RA Guard enabled.  He either has a badly
misconfigured router (and one that's disobeying the mandate to not RA
if you don't have an uplink), or he has a compromised malicious host.

In either case, he's got bigger fish to fry.

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