[c-nsp] Blocking IPv6 on WiSM?

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Mon Aug 9 09:47:24 EDT 2010


On 09/08/10 14:13, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 12:20:26PM +0100, Phil Mayers wrote:
>> At this point, I'd settle for a firmware upgrade that drops all packets
>> with ethertype=0x86dd. I have a very hard time believing the hardware
>> can't do that...
>
> As this would be done by the CPU, this is not a missing HW feature but
> a missing SW feature. And Cisco's BU that's responsible for the WiSM seems

Sure.

> to care very little about IPv6. We run a production dual stack network
> and our hackaround regarding the missing RA guard is just horrible (but
> working).

Can you share any details?


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