Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 01:24:52 -0500 From: Pierre Chiu <pccb@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why use a Firewall? Message-ID: <3855E2B4.59CDD2FD@yahoo.com>
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>Spoofed addresses for one thing. There are many reasons. Sometimes if >anything to protect known vulnerable services, and to limit access to >services that do not warrent public exposure. These days, you really need >to run one. I suggest browsing through your book store's computer security >section. > > ---Mike >Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) >Sentex Communications Corp, >Waterloo, Ontario, Canada >"Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers >could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) I don't think firewall can stop spoofed ip. It can stop non-routable ip like (192.168.1.1), but if your ip is 24.112.1.1 and you spoofed it as 24.118.1.1, I doubt firewall can detect it. Peter Chiu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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