RFC 4218: Threats Relating to IPv6 Multihoming Solutions

This document lists security threats related to IPv6 multihoming. Multihoming can introduce new opportunities to redirect packets to different, unintended IP…

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Outgoing relationships (6 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP
Informative reference — RFC 3775: Mobility Support in IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 2960: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 3833: Threat Analysis of the Domain Name System (DNS)
Informative reference — RFC 3041: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 1948: Defending Against Sequence Number Attacks

Incoming relationships (6 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 4219: Things Multihoming in IPv6 (MULTI6) Developers Should Think About
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5533: Shim6: Level 3 Multihoming Shim Protocol for IPv6
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6181: Threat Analysis for TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7157: IPv6 Multihoming without Network Address Translation
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6629: Considerations on the Application of the Level 3 Multihoming Shim Protocol for IPv6 (Shim6)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9284: Multihoming Deployment Considerations for DDoS Open Threat Signaling (DOTS)