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Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) by throwaway2048 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @08:02PM (#20170615)
Multicast has the potential to almost arbitrarily amplify DDOS with IP spoofing (which, yes, still exists).
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Re:The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) by yusyusyus on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:22PM (#20171334)
How exactly? Sources have to pass RPF check following ucast path and receivers have to follow the path either to RP or source, or the packets don't get there.
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