Subj : Basic Steps / Checks to look at IPv6
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Markus Reschke
Date : Mon Sep 21 2015 20:42:36

Hello Michiel!

Sep 21 21:12 2015, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Markus Reschke:

 MvdV> Are you saying that it is just echo request thatis disabled by 
 MvdV> default in WIn 7 and that other ICMP traffic is not?

Yep, and maybe some other insecure or unimportant ICMP types too.

 MR>> The best approach is to rate limit echo requests to allow debugging
 MR>> while protecting the host/net.

 MvdV> Indeed, but that requires more than the Windows firewall that Paul 
 MvdV> has on his tunneled IPv6 connection. With that it is all or 
 MvdV> nothing. Isn't it?

Windows was never meant to be a router ;)

Regards,
Markus

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