From: Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VPN traffic leaks in IPv6/IPv4 dual-stack networks/hosts
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:14:02 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B6708A.8020701@gont.com.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1211282102240.11155@nerf07.vanv.qr>
On 11/28/2012 05:06 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> If the VPN is supposed to secure all traffic, and the VPN just fails to
>> support v6, then for me, it's questionable to have your traffic leak out
>> the VPN just because of that lack of IPv6 support.
>
> Well, what I am saying is that a server may not
> be conveying "all", but only "0.0.0.0/0".
In such scenarios, doing nothing about IPv6 would be an oversight/error,
since IPv4 and IPv6 do not operate isolated from each other.
Cheers,
--
Fernando Gont
e-mail: fernando@gont.com.ar || fgont@si6networks.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-28 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-27 14:54 VPN traffic leaks in IPv6/IPv4 dual-stack networks/hosts Fernando Gont
2012-11-27 16:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-11-27 16:07 ` Fernando Gont
2012-11-27 16:22 ` Michal Kubeček
2012-11-27 16:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-11-28 19:57 ` Fernando Gont
2012-11-28 20:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-11-28 20:14 ` Fernando Gont [this message]
2012-11-28 21:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-11-29 2:29 ` Fernando Gont
2012-11-29 3:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-11-29 4:38 ` Fernando Gont
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