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Date:      Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:46:48 +0200
From:      Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr>
To:        sthaug@nethelp.no, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au
Cc:        jkb@best.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: anti-spoofing
Message-ID:  <19991014114648.A38195@enst.fr>
In-Reply-To: <67021.939893926@verdi.nethelp.no>; from sthaug@nethelp.no on Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 11:38:46AM %2B0200
References:  <199910140924.TAA27074@cheops.anu.edu.au> <67021.939893926@verdi.nethelp.no>

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On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 11:38:46AM +0200, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
> No, it's a good range to block. Always. Because you never want to have
> multicast addresses as *source* address.

Furthermore, multicast is generally tunneled as IP in IP since most
providers don't provide it natively; so in many cases you shouldn't
see it as a destination address on a leased line either.
-- 
Pierre Beyssac		pb@enst.fr


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