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A denial of service attack stands for a common type of attack where a
malicious attacker makes a service unavailable to other users. Denial
of service in multicast is much more complicated to prevent than in a
pure unicast world because of the following attacks.
- Spam the multicast group.
Solution: We can use our
approach proposed in section 8 which uses active
networks and IPv6 to prevent flooding of the network. In the case
where we don't have these protocols we can't prevent flooding. The
best we can do is message filtering at the end host based on
authentication as described in section .
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Adrian Perrig
Mon Sep 20 17:00:26 PDT 1999