About ND attack defense

IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) attack defense is able to identify forged ND messages to prevent ND attacks.

The IPv6 ND protocol does not provide any security mechanisms and is vulnerable to network attacks. As shown in Figure 168, an attacker can send the following forged ICMPv6 messages to perform ND attacks:

• Forged NS/NA/RS messages with an IPv6 address of a victim host. The gateway and other hosts update the ND entry for the victim with incorrect address information. As a result, all packets intended for the victim are sent to the attacking terminal.

• Forged RA messages with the IPv6 address of a victim gateway. As a result, all hosts attached to the victim gateway maintain incorrect IPv6 configuration parameters and ND entries.