On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:22:54PM -0700, Seth Arnold wrote:
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> Akop, yes, an attacker can spoof a source 0.0.0.0 in order to attack
> your dhcp server, and generally, the only way to prevent this is some
> level of sanity checking IPs based on the _interfaces_ the packet came
> in through.
> 
> e.g., if your dhcp server has two NICs:
> 
> eth0 is connected to the untrusted network
> eth1 is connected to trusted subnet

Actually, both "trusted" subnets are connected to the internet using
other routers to which I don't really have access. So, this solution
won't work. I call them trusted only because I "trust" that no
computer on those subnets will try to exploit anything on the server.


-akop

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