Re: I-D ACTION:draft-nordmark-multi6dt-shim-00.txt

[Erik Nordmark <erik.nordmark@sun.com>]

marcelo bagnulo braun wrote:

> Just one additional nit...
> note that HBAs are particularly restrictive in this aspect, since all 
> locators need to be known a priori. However, even if you use alternative 
> schemes that don't impose such restriction, like CGAs, you still need to 
> add security information at least in the same packet that carries the 
> new locator.

That requirement isn't obvious to me so I think it would warrant discussion.

The issue is whether it would be ok for the multi6 shim to pass a packet 
to the ULP when the source locator has not been verified as belonging to 
 the peer. We all agree that we need to do such verification before 
*sending* packets to a new locator, but what about just accepting the 
packet?

Things to take into account:
In today's Internet, when there is no ingress filtering anybody can 
spoof the source IP address and the packets will be passed by IP to the 
ULP. However, in today's Internet when there is some ingress filtering 
it is possible to restrict the nodes which can actually spoof the source 
IP address to those that are close to the path between the real location 
of the IP address and the receiving node.

If a host wants to prevent packet injection attacks today (such as 
spoofed RCP RST packets, if it wants to prevent it from all nodes and 
not depend on ingress filtering, wouldn't it use IPsec?

   Erik