At Wed, 30 May 2007 09:32:58 -0700,
"Vishwas Manral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However this still leaves room for attacks upstream from any router
> downstream in the Multicast tree.
I simply don't understand how this can effectively be done...
> Also I am unsure, but if we
> can tunnel such multicast packets, then we get over the whole factor
> of RPF, by being able to send a packet from anywhere on the internet.
Sorry, but I don't buy the argument of "if we could do something very
powerful which is actually impossible it would cause a very bad
thing." What I wanted to see is a realistic attack scenario.
> However if the concensus is that the issue is not very practical in
> live networks then I will just drop the discussion here.
I don't know if that's the consensus of the wg; I simply stated my
opinion in response to a question to myself. But at least I've not
been convinced about what you explained so far.
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
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