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cbsmith
4854 days ago
You are joking right? The packet size at the higher layer is what they were matching against. The size of the layer 2 packets is irrelevant.
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noselasd
4853 days ago
Maybe, but nothing in the the rule they showed hinted it was not at layer 3 (For IPv4 )
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cbsmith
4853 days ago
It
is
at layer 3. IPv6 is layer 3.
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noselasd
4853 days ago
If it was IPv6, I'd assume the routing rule on their blog contained IPv6 addreses, not IPv4 addresses, even if the blog faked the IP addresses.
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cbsmith
4853 days ago
Perhaps then you aren't aware that IPv6 stacks can reach IPv4 addresses, nor that IPv6 packets are a popular way to compromise systems that support both IPv6 and IPv4, because the IPv6 stacks are not as well hardened.
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