Inflexible ICMP6 Error-limiting Considered Harmful
itojun@iijlab.net
itojun@iijlab.net
Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:48:17 +0900
this portion is implementation-dependent (as described in RFC2463) so
noone is right and noone is wrong, but...
>Real fix would be to implement _error-rate_, in addition to
>_error-interval_ (with sane defaults). For example, if sampling period
>would be 100 ms and it would be acceptable to have 5 _packets_ per period,
>the potential denial of service attacks would be prevented but the
>traceroute, etc. functionality would still work.
during KAME development process, it was found that error interval
limitation is not a good way. we now impose "maximum N outgoing
icmp6 per second" (packet-per-second) limitation, which works quite
well.
itojun