Some servers do run routing protocols but that feature is so they know the best or alternate route to a certain network.
There will be too much overhead for your workstation to add the network, calculate the route then remove the network from the route table for each time it wants reach a network. Besides if a device sends a TCP establish request to the workstation would the workstation not have to add that route to it's table to acknowledge. I would suggest a firewall. Basem -----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/
