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Re: NIST IPv6 document


From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 22:45:59 +0000


On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:14 AM, Jeff Wheeler wrote:

A stateful firewall on every router interface has been suggested already on this thread.  It is unrealistic.

It isn't just unrealistic, it's highly undesirable, since it represents an huge DoS state vector.

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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () arbor net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com>

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid, with millions
of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but
just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

                          -- Alan Kay



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