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Re: frag6: better limitation



On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:32:42PM +0100, Maxime Villard wrote:
> Now, if someone floods the machine with fragments, the kernel will at some
> point kick all the fragments that come from this someone's address. Obviously,
> an attacker could be able to use a different src address; but then we rely
> on the firewall to reject the packets earlier.

I don't understand what you mean here. The typical scenario here is
someone sending fragments with a randomized host part. Given that IPv6
has enough space for that, it is not really possible to restrict that.

Joerg


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