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Re: Router filtering not enough! (Was: Re: CERT advisory )

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aleph One)
Wed Feb 1 02:12:18 1995

Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 00:08:24 -0600 (CST)
From: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>
To: Paul Traina <pst@cisco.com>
Cc: Jon Peatfield <J.S.Peatfield@amtp.cam.ac.uk>,
        "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM>,
        Jim Duncan <jim@math.psu.edu>, rens@imsi.com, ddrew@mci.net,
        firewalls@GreatCircle.COM, bugtraq@fc.net, z056716@uprc.com,
        jp107@amtp.cam.ac.uk
In-Reply-To: <199501261811.KAA16212@feta.cisco.com>



On Thu, 26 Jan 1995, Paul Traina wrote:

> > 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.
> 
Is this bad? dont think so if it breaks it you will notice and be able to 
fix it.

a1
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