Actually, I saw someone attempt this in my firewall's logfile. Of course, I block ALL outside ICMP traffic to my network.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Benny Amorsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of development issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Interesting idea > On 2003-09-22 at 23:41, Toad wrote: > > > Why is this crazytalk? > > Welcome to IP. The attacker could also send ICMP redirects. Since the > attacker is placed somewhere on the path between you and the other > nodes, he can most likely just cut the connection as well. > > You can try to solve the problem with IPSEC, but the guy with the wire > cutter can never be defeated. > > > /Benny > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
