From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 15:52:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55BFD16A4CE; Thu, 6 May 2004 15:52:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from leviathan.inethouston.com (leviathan.inethouston.com [209.198.171.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB1743D39; Thu, 6 May 2004 15:52:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwcjr@inethouston.net) Received: by leviathan.inethouston.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 59A272C9112; Thu, 6 May 2004 17:51:51 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 17:51:51 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: Julian Elischer Message-ID: <20040506225151.GA62194@minubian.inethouston.net> Mail-Followup-To: Julian Elischer , "David W. Chapman Jr." , Maxim Konovalov , freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Andre Oppermann References: <20040506223545.GA61873@minubian.inethouston.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p5 i386 cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Andre Oppermann Subject: Re: Default behaviour of IP Options processing X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "David W. Chapman Jr." List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 22:52:02 -0000 On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 03:42:43PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > what security problem are you expecting? > I personally am not expecting any problems because I'm not in a knowledgeable enough to state my opinion on such matters, but it seems Mr. Vidrine and Mr. Oppermann were in the opinion that it could be a security problem and everyone seems to be ignoring that and that the few people who actually do need these options should be able to turn them on. -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc.