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Re: Land and Cisco question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Shaw)
Mon Nov 24 03:22:05 1997

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 02:17:12 -0600 (CST)
From: Joe  Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, apb@iafrica.com
In-Reply-To: <199711240555.VAA03243@dixon.DeLong.SJ.CA.US>


On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Owen DeLong wrote:

> 
> > Randy Bush said:
> > > for each interface on a router
> > >   block tcp which is both to and from that interface
> > 
> > I don't think that's sufficient.  What about spoofed packets arriving via
> > interface A, with IP source and destination both set to the address of
> > interface B? 
> > 
> > --apb (Alan Barrett)
> > 
> > 
> If you do it with an access-list in then it doesn't matter.  Even a spoofed packet
> will be blocked prior to arriving where it can do harm.
> 
> Owen

Like the cat in the hat, but I think I follow.  I'll come back to this
when I'm well and hopefully I'll actually get what you're saying.  This
flu is killer.

Wait...  Ok.  So I could still kill external links, regardless of source
routing.  I was only thinking of internal links.  If I'm still wrong,
somebody let me know.

Joe Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
NetAdmin - Insync Internet Services.


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