Re: Firewalls discussion (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Mon, 16 Sep 1996 19:57:24 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Kevin Littlejohn shaped the electrons to say...
>(In case that wasn't clear: I assign 203.61.173.10 to a client. What
>would it take to make sure that _all_ packets from their end of the line
>are stamped as from 203.61.173.10?)

You can't really, filters can't have IPs set dynamically. A decent
compromise is a filter that allows the 30 IPs in the pool and just those
30. Either as a subnet permit (if it is an even subnet) or a filter with
30 permit rules.

Not perfect, but a damn sight tighter than no filters.

-MZ

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