Re: [manet] Alexey Melnikov's Discuss on draft-ietf-manet-dlep-26: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Thu, 15 December 2016 15:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [manet] Alexey Melnikov's Discuss on draft-ietf-manet-dlep-26: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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On 15/12/16 14:58, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> That is the question really. If the date is exposed outside of LAN, does
> it contain no sensitive information?
> 

If someone can tell a router that AA.BB/16 is connected "here"
then that'd I guess cause the router to send packets to that
interface that'd otherwise go out the default. Seems like that
could be the basis for some attacks, wouldn't it?

S.