From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 13 02:51:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA11843 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 02:51:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA11835; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 02:51:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17784; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 10:47:27 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA17485; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 10:48:39 GMT (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199812131048.KAA17485@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Matthew Dillon cc: Brian Somers , "Enoch Ceshkovsky" , "Gary Palmer" , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Eivind Eklund Subject: Re: NATD/Libalias leaks In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 12 Dec 1998 18:06:42 PST." <199812130206.SAA14397@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 10:48:38 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I can't set up a scenario with bad NetBIOS packets, but I've got a hub here and should be able to route from one machine to another via something running natd. I should also be able to set up a dialup scenario using ppp/libalias. I think this sort of thing can only really be proven to still work - it's impractical to try to fake bad network traffic (well, as you say, it's at least too stressful!). > :It looks like Matt's going to have a crack at alias_nbt according to > :his followup to bin/8962. > > Well, I tried... but after staring at my old windows box (which I haven't > turned on in a month) for a few minutes, I decided that actually > trying to test the damn thing would be too stressful on my delicate > constitution :-) > > We're going to need someone with a cable modem (like the original bug > poster) who regularly gets malformed netbios packets to test it. I'm > considering just comitting it (I don't think it will get adequate testing, > else). > > :Brian > > Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet > Communications & God knows what else. > (Please include original email in any response) -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message