On Mar 12, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Jeff Wheeler wrote:

> Of course, I don't really mean to call Owen a liar, or foolish, or anything 
> else.  

Please don't; even though I disagree with him and agree with you very strongly 
on this set of issues, Owen is a smart and straightforward guy, and is simply 
speaking from his (selective on this particular set of topics, IMHO) own 
individual viewpoint.

;>

> and if the most popular fix becomes dependent on NDP inspection


If that comes to pass, then the fix will be useless, unfortunately, just as 
dynamic ARP inspection (DAI) is useless today; it self-DoSes the box.

Any form of 'inspection' will not scale for this problem, as it will be 
CPU-bound even on ASIC-based platforms.

All this ICMPv6 weirdness and outright brokenness is the Achilles' heel of 
IPv6, and I see no ready solution in sight for the set of problems it engenders.

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