Re: [v6ops] SLAAC renum: Problem Statement & Operational workarounds

[Owen DeLong <[e-mail]>]

> On Oct 27, 2019, at 12:46 PM, Ted Lemon <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> On Oct 27, 2019, at 3:35 PM, Owen DeLong <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>> In the vast majority of situations where I would expect hostile hosts to be likely to be on LAN, I don’t think I’d be using
>> SLAAC for address assignment in the first place. Most likely, I’d want stateful DHCP in such instances.
> 
> Hostile hosts happen when you get hit with malware, e.g. ransomware.   Being resilient in situations like this is important, even if they aren’t all that common, because the cost of non-resilience is so high.
> 

There’s a difference between networks where hostile hosts can occur in extreme circumstances (what you describe) and networks where hostile hosts are expected as a normal occurrence (what I was intending to describe).

The type of attack and type of resilience required vary between these two situations as well.

Owen