From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Feb 6 08:26:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA13513 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 08:26:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA13506 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 08:26:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <16938(4)>; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 08:22:34 PST Received: from localhost by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <177476>; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 08:22:24 -0800 To: Oliver Friedrichs cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security advisory In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Feb 97 17:05:33 PST." Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 08:22:12 PST From: Bill Fenner Message-Id: <97Feb6.082224pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just out of curiosity, why is disabling source-routing entirely suggested? Usually filtering out packets with source addresses in your network is sufficient, and source routing is useful for diagnostics and it's annoying when it's arbitrarily disabled. Bill