Re: I-D Action:draft-ietf-v6ops-rogue-ra-00.txt

[Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

Hi,

This is a reposting with (minor) edits from comments from WGLC, mainly
from Jinmei.

Tim

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:30:02PM -0700, Internet-Drafts@ietf.org wrote:
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the IPv6 Operations Working Group of the IETF.
> 
> 
> 	Title           : Rogue IPv6 Router Advertisement Problem Statement
> 	Author(s)       : T. Chown, S. Venaas
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-v6ops-rogue-ra-00.txt
> 	Pages           : 16
> 	Date            : 2009-05-27
> 
> When deploying IPv6, whether IPv6-only or dual-stack, routers are
> configured to send IPv6 Router Advertisements to convey information
> to nodes that enable them to autoconfigure on the network.  This
> information includes the implied default router address taken from
> the observed source address of the Router Advertisement (RA) message,
> as well as on-link prefix information.  However, unintended
> misconfigurations by users or administrators, or possibly malicious
> attacks on the network, may lead to bogus RAs being present, which in
> turn can cause operational problems for hosts on the network.  In
> this draft we summarise the scenarios in which rogue RAs may be
> observed and present a list of possible solutions to the problem.  We
> focus on the unintended causes of rogue RAs in the text.  The goal of
> this text is to be Informational, and as such to present a framework
> around which solutions can be proposed and discussed.
> 
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