Neighbor Discovery Enhancement for DOS mititgation
draft-gashinsky-6man-v6nd-enhance-02
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| Author | Warren "Ace" Kumari | ||
| Last updated | 2013-04-25 (Latest revision 2012-10-22) | ||
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Abstract
In IPv4, subnets are generally small, made just large enough to cover the actual number of machines on the subnet. In contrast, the default IPv6 subnet size is a /64, a number so large it covers trillions of addresses, the overwhelming number of which will be unassigned. Consequently, simplistic implementations of Neighbor Discovery can be vulnerable to denial of service attacks whereby they attempt to perform address resolution for large numbers of unassigned addresses. Such denial of attacks can be launched intentionally (by an attacker), or result from legitimate operational tools that scan networks for inventory and other purposes. As a result of these vulnerabilities, new devices may not be able to "join" a network, it may be impossible to establish new IPv6 flows, and existing IPv6 transported flows may be interrupted. This document describes a modification to the [RFC4861] neighbor discovery protocol aimed at improving the resilience of the neighbor discovery process. We call this process Gratuitous neighbor discovery and it derives inspiration in part from analogous IPv4 gratuitous ARP implementation.
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