Weekly IPv6 Roundup: May 1, 2007
In the News (see below for From the Blogosphere)
IESG Approves IPv6 Link Model Document for 802.16 Networks
ICT Standardization Report - USA
The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) approved "Analysis of *IPv6 Link Models for 802.16 based Networks," which provides different IPv6 link models ...
Unsafe routing option in IPv6
heise Security - London,UK
The developers of FreeBSD and Linux have released new kernel versions which by default ignores type 0 IPv6 routing headers. This is intended to prevent ...
Agencies activate IWN plan
GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA
IWN also will rely on IPv6 technology and evolving National Institute of Standards and Technology security standards, Justice said. ...
Linux Kernel IPv6 Protocol Type 0 Route Header Remote Denial of ...
FrSIRT - Montpellier,France
This issue is caused by a design error within the IPv6 protocol when handling IPv6 type 0 route headers, which could be exploited by remote attackers to ...
Tokyo boffins crack internet speed record
iT News - Australia
An international team led by the University of Tokyo has set two consecutive Internet2 Land Speed Records (I2-LSRs) in the IPv6 single and multi-stream ...
Consortium Develops Linux-based IPv6 Router
CIO India - Bangalore,Karnataka,India
Since its inception in July last year, the IPv6 for e-Business project has worked to provide a portal for next-generation network technology by aggregating ...
ExecutiveBiz and SI International Present The Second Annual "The ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Part one of a two-part annual series on the next-generation Internet, the conference offers advice for building and securing a robust IPv6 network ...
IPv6 Configuration and Using OSPF and Other Routing Protocols for IPv6
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
IP Version 6 (IPv6) is a technology developed to overcome the limitations of the current standard, IP Version 4 (IPv4), which allows end systems to ...
FreeBSD Security Advisory - IPv6 Routing Header 0 is dangerous ...
Help Net Security - Croatia
All nodes in an IPv6 network -- both routers and hosts -- are required by RFC 2640 to process such headers. II. Problem Description There is no mechanism ...
LXer: Consortium Develops Linux-based IPv6 Router
Forum: Syndicated Linux News Posted By: LXer Post Time: 04-30-2007 at 12:46 PM.
Tokyo boffins crack internet speed record
By Bryan in Japan (Bryan in Japan)
Using the same 30000km path, the network was able to achieve a throughput of 9.08Gbps, equivalent to 272400Tb-m/s for both the IPv6 multi and single stream categories.In doing so, the team surpassed the current IPv4 records, *...*
BT reorganise, same names, different titles
By Sam Sethi
Firstly why is the 21CN network BT rolling out neither an IPv6 or fibre to the home solution? Companies like Google (Apps for Enterprise), SalesForce.com (AppExchange), Amazon (S3,EC2), Microsoft (Connected Framework) and many others ...
Unsafe routing option in IPv6
By heise Security(heise Security)
Unsafe routing option in IPv6.
Easy Access to IPv6 at Last?
By glyn moody (glyn moody)
And yet we hear little of IPv6 these days. So I was glad to see that down-under they are doing something on this front with the IPv6 for e-Business initiative. As well as scads of useful IPv6 resources, this site also has links to a ...
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