Re: How to turn on source-routing?

Brian Rice (bri@whitestone.com)
Thu, 21 Sep 1995 19:39:56 -0700 (PDT)

> N> Is there a particular reason, apart from security and code bloat, that
> N> Livingston doesn't support this feature?

Just security, we don't have a code-bloat problem. Dig, all these features
contained in a PortMaster are in slightly more than a quarter meg. I think
that's pretty cool. :-)

> Can you list any good resons why they should? Most well run routers will drop
> any packets with source routing set on them, as source routing makes it very
> easy to spoof IP addresses. Perhaps it's my lack of imagination, but I can't
> think of any legitimate reasons to use source routing.

And I *love* this opinion ...

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Bri