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Re: IPv6 Security [Was: Re: misunderstanding scale]


From: "Luke S. Crawford" <lsc () prgmr com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:25:34 -0700



It might make sense to just give everyone their own vlan and their own /64;  that would, of course, bring its own problems 
and complexities (namely that I've gotta have the capability to deal with more customers than I can have native vlans - 
 not impossible to get around, but significant added complexity.)

I don’t see the point of that.


why not? After carefully considering everything you have told me, this sounds like the way forward to do it the "IPv6 way" - privacy IPs would work fine, and I could filter every port such that only packets from that /64 were allowed out and only addresses to that /64 would be allowed in. Nobody would be able to spoof or listen in on their neighbor; yeah, my router would have to send a lot of RAs, but routers that handle the amount of traffic my customers send are cheap. I have a lot of customers, sure, but they are small.

Sure, it's going to cost me in routing complexity, but it looks like the only thing I can do that will actually solve my problems and use IPv6 the way IPv6 is expecting to be used.

I'd then have to figure out how to make their ipv4 /32 work, but I can think of several possibilities that might work. If nothing else, I could give them one interface for IPv6 and one for IPv4, and leave the IPv4 interface the current system.





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