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RE: question about draft-gont-6man-oversized-header-chain-00

"Eric Vyncke (evyncke)" <evyncke@cisco.com> Tue, 27 March 2012 16:21 UTC

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Subject: RE: question about draft-gont-6man-oversized-header-chain-00
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:21:32 +0200
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From: "Eric Vyncke (evyncke)" <evyncke@cisco.com>
To: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou <achatz@forthnetgroup.gr>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipv6-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
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> Fernando Gont
> Sent: mardi 27 mars 2012 15:26
> To: Tassos Chatzithomaoglou
> Cc: ipv6@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: question about draft-gont-6man-oversized-header-chain-00
> 
> On 03/27/2012 11:30 AM, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou wrote:
> > i was wondering, is there any actual (from a production network, not
> > created on purpose in a lab) sample ipv6 traffic showing an ipv6
> > header comprising of two or more packets?
> 
> No. That's exactly the point: such traffic does not occur in practice,
> but since it is allowed by the specifications, can still be used by
> attacker for malicious purposes (that is, evading security controls).
> 
> Thanks,
> --
> Fernando Gont
> SI6 Networks
> e-mail: fgont@si6networks.com
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