On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
If some third party decides to send packets to a massive number of addresses on that LAN, then the router which is forwarding these packets will attempt to perform ND for these addresses. This can trivially be used as a cache exhaustion attack, which can cause regular connectivity on that LAN to be trashed.
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