17 Jul
2011
17 Jul
'11
5:15 a.m.
* Jared Mauch:
Solving a local attack is something I consider different in scope than the current draft being discussed in 6man, v6ops, ipv6@ etc...
That's not going to happen because it's a layering violation between the IETF and IEEE. It has not been solved during thirty years of IPv4 over Ethernet. Why would be IPv6 be different? In practice, the IPv4 vs IPv6 difference is that some vendors provide DHCP snooping, private VLANs and unicast flood protection in IPv4 land, which seems to provide a scalable way to build Ethernet networks with address validation---but there is nothing comparable for IPv6 right now, from any vendor.