[801] in bugtraq
Re: Router filtering not enough! (Was: Re: CERT advisory )
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Shipley)
Thu Jan 26 22:49:23 1995
To: Paul Traina <pst@cisco.com>
Cc: Jon Peatfield <J.S.Peatfield@amtp.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 26 Jan 1995 10:11:03 -0800.
<199501261811.KAA16212@feta.cisco.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 18:36:51 -0800
From: Pete Shipley <shipley@merde.dis.org>
>> How hard would it be to modify tcpwraper (for example) to check the
>> incomming MAC address on a connection and to be worried if it came from a
>> list of routers but the address was the local net?
>
>This breaks people who might have their netmasks set incorrectly on the local
>net.
this might encourage people to fix their netmasks...
