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Further Mitigating Router ND Cache Exhaustion DoS Attacks Using Solicited-Node Group Membership
draft-smith-v6ops-mitigate-rtr-dos-mld-slctd-node-02

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Author Mark Smith
Last updated 2016-08-30 (Latest revision 2016-02-27)
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Abstract

For each of their IPv6 unicast or anycast addresses, nodes join a Solicited-Node multicast group, formed using the lower 24 bits of the address. This Solicited-Node group membership could be used by routers to further mitigate a Neighbor Discovery cache Denial of Service attack.

Authors

Mark Smith

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