Le 2014-04-15 07:28, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen a écrit :
> Simon Perreault <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> Correct. But if DHCP or RAs are not filtered at layer 2, a rogue user
>> can already do this today without this extension.
> 
> Right, to a certain extent that is true, of course; but not in the same
> drive-by fashion where a single packet can put everyone offline (if the
> option is not in the regular announcements).

Sure it can. Just send them to a non-existing default gateway. Unless I
misunderstood your point.

> Would it not be reasonable to add in a requirement that if a client has
> already received a DHCPv4 lease (or more generally, has been configured
> for IPv4 in some way), it will ignore requests to turn off the stack?

I'd be fine with that. Thanks for the idea!

Simon
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