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Date:      Thu, 16 Jan 1997 21:05:35 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, "Matthew A. Gessner" <mgessner@aristar.com>, hackers <hackers@freebsd.org>, cmott@srv.net
Subject:   Re: IP aliasing on 2.1.5 or 2.1.6? 
Message-ID:  <199701162105.VAA01349@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Jan 1997 19:28:52 %2B0100." <3.0.32.19970116192850.00a90ab0@dimaga.com> 

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> At 06:06 AM 1/16/97 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> >> 	Steve Sims has been working on some documentation covering this, and he
> >> mentions this is only for 2.2+ releases.
> >
> >Steve's work (which just went into the tutorials section, BTW) covers
> >Charles Mott's extentions to ppp for IP aliasing.  I believe you can
> >get this version of ppp for 2.1.x as well, so that's probably not a
> >problem either.  Anyone got a pointer to the original version of this?
> 
> http://www.srv.net/~cmott/alias.html
> 
> However, this is based on 2.1.5 PPP, and has security holes.  I've made an
> update (after mailing with Charles Mott) which bring the base version to
> 2.1.6 with patches for all known holes.  This is available at
> 
> http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/ppp+pktAlias1.8.tar.gz
> 
> I'll look at bringing mpd under control, too :)
> 
> Eivind Eklund / perhaps@yes.no / http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/

I'm currently looking at ppp+pktAlias1.8 - with a view to merging it with the 
mpd code and replacing 'ppp' in -current.

What security holes were there ?

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....





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