Re: Filters for dialup ppp/slip/shell (fwd)

thoth@purplefrog.com
Wed, 11 Dec 1996 10:33:08 EST

MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com> ,in message <199612110154.RAA07033@server.li
vingston.com>, wrote:

> However, I think the question was what to put on the dialin lines, and I
> would see this done on the WAN port to the internet as that is a choke
> point.
>
> You could do both I suppose, but I wouldn't rely on just the dialin filters,
> especially if you offer shell access since they don't work there.

Well, I guess you could write a generic filter for all your dialin to
prevent them from spoofing out except for the fact that they'll be able to
spoof any IP from the dialin pool.

A tiny problem in my opinion. RFE.

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Bob Forsman                                   thoth@gainesville.fl.us
           http://www.gainesville.fl.us/~thoth/