From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 09:34:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B2B216A4BF for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 09:34:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adicia.telenet-ops.be (adicia.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C31AA43FDF for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 09:34:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike.guilmot@pandora.be) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by adicia.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id E9D9E3822F for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 18:34:27 +0200 (MEST) Received: from D57650F9.kabel.telenet.be (D57650F9.kabel.telenet.be [213.118.80.249]) by adicia.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D6E238062 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 18:34:26 +0200 (MEST) From: Guilmot Mike To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 18:34:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <004001c37540$cdf13680$0400a8c0@fire> <003301c3756e$dd43b440$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> <20030909160935.GA13801@pref.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <20030909160935.GA13801@pref.my.domain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309091834.39779.mike.guilmot@pandora.be> Subject: Re: Spoofing, defense? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 16:34:35 -0000 On Tuesday 09 September 2003 18:09, Alexander Farber wrote: > I've always wondered, why write the firewall rules > blocking some IP addresses (like on the bottom of this mail). > Doesn't it make more sense only to allow connections > addressed to the external IP of your firewall, like > > block in on rl0 from any to any > pass in quick on rl0 from any to $myExtIP www > pass in quick on rl0 from any to $myExtIP ssh The question was only to make sure spoofing was impossible. So I showed how to block the intern IPS, as stated in the RFC's :-) And I added a few ones too. What you gave was for a good firewall, what was asked was how to anti-spoof, right? :-) -- Kind regards, Guilmot Mike