I had the privilege of reviewing a neat paper, Network Topology Discovery , by Eric Siegel, a technical analyst at the Burton Group. His paper covers a many aspects of network topology discovery in 30 pages, sprinkled with details on how things work. I found it to be a very well written paper, covering...

One of the security factors I’ve heard espoused about IPv6 is that the large address space (128 bits: 64 bits of network and 64 bits of host address) makes it impossible to scan the network for hosts. On initial inspection, this seemed like a reasonable thought. However, when you look at IPv6's use...