Re: radvd

[Justin Sherrill <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If there's other operating systems that run it by default, I'd rather
stick with what people will expect (just working) than turning it off
because of a security problem that is, at this point, hypothetical.

I haven't used IPv6 very often, so there may be arguments I don't know about.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Matthias Rampke <matthias@rampke.de> wrote:
>
> On Aug 17, 2011 11:05 PM, "Justin Sherrill" <justin@shiningsilence.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Would it be worth setting this by default, since (someday, somehow)
>> IPv6 is becoming more common?
>
> I'd be in favour, but I'm not sure about the security implications of
> accepting anything from the network by default upon plugging in. (How is it
> with DHCPv4 now? It would be best to just do the analog thing for IPv6, I
> think)
>
> -m.
>