On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, David L. Craig wrote: dlc>> I am not aware that this could happen. There is no IP dlc>> routing going on at all. Most ISPs (like us) block all dlc>> routing information sent from the PPP link. dlc> dlc>I guess I wasn't clear. I wasn't refering to routing dlc>protocols as much as the ability of packets to be dlc>source-routed through the system. My point was this type of Per default source routing under Linux is disabled. I still dont know what the security issue is you are referring to?
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