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Date:      Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:44:18 +0700
From:      Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th>
To:        Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I did it!
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.20000828114418.00894970@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008280343510.1633-100000@w2xo.w2xo.pgh.pa.u s>
References:  <3.0.6.32.20000828100357.008912f0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>

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At 03:46 AM 8/28/00 +0000, you wrote:
>
>I just had a little conversation about this with the local
>guru guy and this is generally a *bad* thing. You should not
>need source routing turned on. It allows packet spoofing.
>
>In source routing, you are specifying the path of the packet
>through routers. You probably don't want your FreeBSD box
>participating in such shenanagins!
>
>-Jim

I sure don't, although I'm running on a subnet behind the school's
firewall, so I'm relatively safe. I've already seen some pretty strange
ip addresses trying to send to my 127.0.0.1.

But if that wasn't what needed to be done what was? As soon as I added
those lines to my /etc/rc.conf and rebooted my client machines were
able to access the internet. Before I added them they couldn't even
ping the server, although I could telnet to it.

Got any suggestions? I haven't done enough troubleshooting to know what
else to look for, and my searches in the archives haven't turned up any
suggestions.
-- 
Roger


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