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Re: Limit the number of Router Advertisements processed on an interface

From Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
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Subject Re: Limit the number of Router Advertisements processed on an interface
Date 2022-06-15 18:10 +0200
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Dheeraj Kandula <dkandula@gmail.com> wrote:
    > *Why?*
    > This is to avoid DOS attacks using RAs from being bombarded onto a linux
    > machine.

Well, you might be able to rate limit them with ip6tables/nftables, but I see
no point in only listening to the first X of them. You might as well just
disable them and configure a static IPv6.

You should also check out "RAGuard" functionality on your L2 switch.
RFC6105.

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Limit the number of Router Advertisements processed on an interface Dheeraj Kandula <dkandula@gmail.com> - 2022-06-15 16:30 +0200
  Re: Limit the number of Router Advertisements processed on an  interface Marc Haber <mh+debian-ipv6@zugschlus.de> - 2022-06-15 17:50 +0200
    Re: Limit the number of Router Advertisements processed on an interface Dheeraj Kandula <dkandula@gmail.com> - 2022-06-15 18:30 +0200
      Re: Limit the number of Router Advertisements processed on an interface Dheeraj Kandula <dkandula@gmail.com> - 2022-07-11 22:00 +0200
  Re: Limit the number of Router Advertisements processed on an interface Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca> - 2022-06-15 18:10 +0200

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