Well, without having a default route to get information like: "Where do I send packet X?" where are you going to get your routing tables from? You HAVE to have some kind of default resource to determine where you are going to route packets to.
Miles Stevenson QuickHire Network Support Specialist -----Original Message----- From: John Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 3:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Secure desktop idea? A thought just occurred to me... desktop systems (and even some servers) could be almost completely secure if there was a way to dynamically allocate and de-allocate routes. If your system has no default route, it ought to be safe from any TCP-based attack. If routes to remote networks could be dynamically added as needed, and then removed, it seems that it would be virtually impossible for an outsider to even see that the host exists, let alone be able to root it. Ideas? Am I just way off the deep end here? :-) -- John Oliver System Administrator hosting.com, an Allegiance Telecom company mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (858) 637-3600 http://www.hosting.com/
