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Re: [savi] Links with both SAVI-capable and legacy switches



Guang Yao wrote:

Many kinds of attacks can be designed in this situation. For instance,
send spoofing NA to prevent other hosts behind SAVI devices to get
stateless addresses.

I don't agree.  The attack you mention is impossible if SAVI devices
drop NA packets for which the target address has no corresponding
binding -- as I described in an earlier email.  It is irrelevant whether
the attacker is the only node on its SAVI switch port, or whether the
attacker is on a link segment that connects to a SAVI switch port via
legacy switches.

- Christian



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