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Comment by Borealid

I used RFC1918 addresses as examples only.

10.7.7.7 shouldn't get dropped, because it's supposed to be routed over the VPN. The DHCP server shouldn't be able to cause VPN-bound traffic to be dropped, in my opinion.

As I replied to one of your other comments, I don't think making the attack go from privacy-breach to denial-of-service is "preventing" the attack: you've only partially mitigated it. Full mitigation requires more than the firewall rules you've described.

Said differently, a malicious DHCP server should not be able to denial-of-service traffic within your VPN (or, by selectively pushing routes and then observing the impact on generated traffic, probabalistically determine the IPs with which you're communicating!).

parent Borealid 2 years ago

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