[1680] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Static IP addresses for Dial-up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Jan 29 12:54:54 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:48:00 -0500
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: "Brian Carpenter CERN-CN" <brian@dxcoms.cern.ch>, peter@unipalm.pipex.com,
nanog@merit.edu, cidrd@iepg.org, iab@isi.edu
At 02:19 AM 1/30/96 +1100, Robert Elz wrote:
>
>You're expecting me to obtain one of those things for my system
>at home? And assuming that password type capable access
>protection is the only kind of protection I care about.
>
Well, not exactly. I was thinking along the lines of something a little
larger than 'home' access. :-)
>Lets be a little reasonable please - access filters aren't
>dead yet (I would like to see them vanish, and I would hope that
>one day that might happen, today isn't that day).
>
>I will believe this has happened when cisco no longer support
>packet filtering in their routers.
>
>kre
>
>
My point was that filtering on source addresses is not exactly the
most secure method of access control.
- paul
