[59855] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco vulnerability and dangerous filtering techniques
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Jul 23 08:47:38 2003
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:10:51 -0400
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OF9AE4E4E5.B93A3B70-ON80256D6C.00321C2B-80256D6C.0032B111@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
-- On Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:13 +0100
-- Michael.Dillon@radianz.com supposedly wrote:
> P.S. The only sure way of eradicating this Cisco bug from the Internet is
> to convert the Internet to IPv6. The bug doesn't affect Cisco's IPv6 code
> and older routers whose IOS cannot be upgraded also cannot do IPv6 so
> they cannot be used in an IPv6 Internet. Food for thought...
Right, because the IPv6 code is guaranteed to have no bugs of its own.
--
TTFN,
patrick
