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Re: [v6ops] Operational guidelines for a company/organization IPv6 address scheme supplemental to RFC5157

Philipp Kern <phil@philkern.de> Wed, 26 September 2012 22:27 UTC

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From: Philipp Kern <phil@philkern.de>
To: "Marksteiner, Stefan" <stefan.marksteiner@joanneum.at>
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Operational guidelines for a company/organization IPv6 address scheme supplemental to RFC5157
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:16:12AM +0200, Marksteiner, Stefan wrote:
> There's a variety of reasons to keep track of addresses from usage and
> statistics to forensic purposes in security incidents (also those which are
> perpetrated from inside sources to outside targets).

Wouldn't it be better to track the tables of your switches and routers
(possibly with port info) instead? Because everybody can infer the subnet from
one stateful DHCPv6 reply and just use another address. Well, unless your
hardware can already do DHCPv6 snooping at the edge, which seems to be sort of
rare.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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