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 16:57:21 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B66CA1.5050907@gont.com.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1211271703530.8184@nerf07.vanv.qr>
On 11/27/2012 01:10 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> For a project such as OpenVPN, a (portable) fix might be non-trivial.
>
> If the VPN server does not even advertise to-be-secured IPv6 prefixes,
> any client-side fix is questionable.
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.
But YMMV, of couse.
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 19:57 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 [this message]
2012-11-28 20:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-11-28 20:14 ` Fernando Gont
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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