Spoofing, defense?

Guilmot Mike mike.guilmot at pandora.be
Tue Sep 9 09:34:35 PDT 2003


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


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