Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 21:06:49 -0600 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filtering packets based on incoming address [ack. plaintext now] Message-ID: <20011112210649.E81711@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20011112194105.C13393@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 07:41:05PM -0600 References: <001201c16b82$4da9d1e0$9700a8c0@ezri> <20011112134317.A46767@greg.cex.ca> <20011112191518.C81711@elvis.mu.org> <20011112194105.C13393@elvis.mu.org>
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On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 07:41:05PM -0600, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> [011112 19:15] wrote:
> >
> > every router in-between is ({un,}willingly) participating in the attack.
>
> Bad router, no source routing plz! (right? :) )
right. hence my careful wording about "the modern internet".
that or the case where someone has manually added a static route on each
router inbetween victim and attacker. this is probably just as improbable
as finding a path where all routers respect source routing...
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