rfc-6169

Security Concerns with IP Tunneling

S. Krishnan, D. Thaler, J. Hoagland
date2011-04 streamIETF areaops wgv6ops statusINFORMATIONAL pages20 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6169 doi10.17487/RFC6169
A number of security concerns with IP tunnels are documented in this memo. The intended audience of this document includes network administrators and future protocol developers. The primary intent of this document is to raise the awareness level regarding the security issues with IP tunnels as deployed and propose strategies for the mitigation of those issues. [STANDARDS-TRACK]