From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@marasystems.com>
To: Sven Anders <anders@anduras.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: New API / POM modules to merge....
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:07:03 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0411092358200.10593@filer.marasystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41913C78.6050109@anduras.de>
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Sven Anders wrote:
> But does a possible misconfiguration justify this?
In case of TTL yes, or at least that is the general concensus among all
the netfilter developers.
I hope you understand why increases of the IP TTL is very dangerous to IP
networking. If you want to compare with something else then a reasonable
comparisation is a mail relay removing all Received lines while forwarding
the messages, this is about as dangerous for much the same reasons.
The tool is there, but you need to work a little harder to get access to
it. From experience it is known that if such tools are available in
mainline then users who do not have a clue what they are doing will use it
without understanding the implications or limitations of how such tool can
be safely used.
Regards
Henrik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-09 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20041108134743.217B817BE5@grasshopper.anduras.de>
2004-11-08 20:28 ` Re: Unique rule ID?! Sven Anders
2004-11-08 21:32 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-11-09 15:53 ` New API / POM modules to merge.... (was: Unique rule ID?!) Sven Anders
2004-11-09 19:09 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-11-09 21:54 ` New API / POM modules to merge Sven Anders
2004-11-09 23:07 ` Henrik Nordstrom [this message]
2004-11-09 23:16 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-11-09 23:27 ` Sven Anders
2004-11-09 23:55 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-11-09 23:46 ` Henrik Nordstrom
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