Re: IP address forging

2003-07-04 Thread Sean
: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:18 PM Subject: Re: IP address forging I hope that you are kidding. That has been trivial for a long, long time... Jim Hanuska Ivo wrote: I have question which does not make me sleep: Is it possible to forge my IP address? Imagine situation that I am

Re: IP address forging

2003-07-03 Thread Meritt James
I hope that you are kidding. That has been trivial for a long, long time... Jim Hanuska Ivo wrote: I have question which does not make me sleep: Is it possible to forge my IP address? Imagine situation that I am connected with some sort of link (not Ethernet like device, there is answer

RE: IP address forging

2003-07-03 Thread David Gillett
The common term that has emerged is spoof rather than forge, and the short answer is that very few bits of the Internet bother to apply any check to source IP addresses. Almost anybody, almost anywhere, can generate packets that carry your IP address as their source. Naturally, a bunch of

Re: IP address forging

2003-07-03 Thread jfastabe
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Hanuska Ivo wrote: Is it possible to forge my IP address? yes look at tools hosted at www.packetfactory.net they will accomplish this for you or take a look at Unix Network Programming by Richard Stevens if you can get ahold of it there is a good section on Raw Sockets(for