At 09:31 AM 6/5/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh quoted: > >Are there any legit uses for IP address spoofing? >Has Microsoft said yet why they are adding in >this new feature? I've been a Windows 9X users >for years and never seem to have a reason to do >spoofing........ > >Richard There are protocols (e.g., UDP, and things built on top of it) where you don't need to know the source IP ---since its forgable, you couldn't trust it anyway. Since UDP is not connection oriented, you don't need it. A lot harder to trace datagrams with bogus src IP once you're past the first router.
