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From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>
To: Chad Scott <chad@txdirect.net>
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Subject: Re: Spoofed IPs
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> I have a FreeBSD machine running ircd, and it has been proven to me that
> it is IP "spoofable".  I have BSDi BSD/OS running on several machines here
> (for my more mundane things) and it doesn't seem to have this problem when
> running the same copy of ircd.
> 
> Are there patches or something similar available to prevent these spoofing
> attacks?
> 

Do you mean normal IP spoofing or ircd IP spoofing (where the user fakes
their username, etc) ? ALso, what ircd are you running?

Thanks.

Adrian.