On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Alfonso Lazaro wrote:
> So if our firebox is defending our internal network ( 192.168.x.x ... )
> and our WG Firewall is a proxie with an external ip in internet ( 100.100.100.100
>hipotetic ip address ) the atacker can change his/her routes like so :
>
> # route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 100.100.100.100
I am afraid this will work only if either of these conditions is true:
1. the attacker is connected directly to the firebox's external interface
2. the attacker's OS will source route such packets and every intermediate
router will honor the specified source routing
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
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