[24626] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Secure DHCP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrea Di Lecce)
Sun Jul 25 03:02:18 1999
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 02:59:13 -0400
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>,
Nicholas Bastin <nbastin@rbbsystems.com>
From: Andrea Di Lecce <slinky@rogerswave.ca>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <379A7A53.8C947B4B@senie.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 22:45 7/24/99 -0400, Daniel Senie wrote:
>
>You don't specify whether this was a corporate network or a production
>(e.g. cable) network. The short answer (especially if a corporate
>network): get him fired, or worse. (I.e. take some sort of legal
>action). If a public, network, such as a cable modem system, that'd be
>fairly nasty...
Our cable modems have the option of directional port filtering. When we
realized what a problem rogues could be, we very quickly filtered off
traffic from the customer PC with destination port 68.
Andrea.
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