12 Jun
2003
12 Jun
'03
3:32 p.m.
Nearly every customer of mine has required IPv6 in their RFPs for over a year, but not a single one has turned it on even for testing.
Lets say I have a lab with a few machines and I enable native v6 on my primary v4 network connection. The 300kbps that my lab generates is fine. What do I do if someone DOS's me with v6 packets and my router dies taking out both v4 and v6? The routers we spec can usually handle v4 traffic at levels on par with the link rates so its not as big a deal for v4 DOS traffic (link saturation is more the problem). When the v6 rate is substantially less than the link's bandwidth, I get worried that a low-level DOS will take out our entire network... Eric :)