[76835] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6, IPSEC and deep packet inspection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Thomas)
Fri Dec 31 16:53:09 2004
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:52:43 -0600 (CST)
From: Rob Thomas <robt@cymru.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <016f01c4ef81$7139ce90$6401a8c0@stephen>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hi, NANOGers.
Folks who are considering or using IPv6 should know that the miscreants
are as well. There have been IPv6 bots and botnets. IPv6 based hosts
are regularly used as a bounce for IRC access. IPv6 DoS tools do exist.
Many of your monitoring tools choke on IPv6, or ignore it entirely.
So while a new approach to security with IPv6 may be warranted, many of
the same old threats await you there.
Thanks,
Rob.
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Rob Thomas
http://www.cymru.com
Shaving with Occam's razor since 1999.
