[ietf86-tech] Ok, I am pissed now, another RA bitch

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:

>
> It was 2:30 AM and someone decided to do shit on the network again the
> last half hour.
>
> % ndp -rn
> fe80::64:2%en0 if=en0, flags=O, pref=medium, expire=24m58s
> fe80::6600:f1ff:feae:d71f%en0 if=en0, flags=TS, pref=medium, expire=Never
>
> especially happy given the "expire=Never" which will make a lot of
> people unhappy in the morning.
>
> Lucky for whomever it was my scrolllback buffer in my tcpdump window
> was too small.
>

and I am restircting that to under normal circumstance RS/RAs now:

% tcpdump -ln -s0 -i en0 -e -vvv icmp6 and '((ip6[40+0] == 133) or (ip6[40+0] == 134))'



> We either need to have a polite word with all these kiddies or we need
> a different solution to the problem;  I for myself will now monitor my
> default router list and just flush it when I see other stuff in there
> or just make it static and not accept RAs anymore.  I do understand that
> this is not a solution we can tell people...
>
> /bz
>
>

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                  Charles Haddon Spurgeon:
"Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life.  Many might have failed
   beneath the bitterness of their trial  had they not found a friend."