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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
PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1

  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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