Fedder Wrote: > Any decent firewall should not let spoofed packets enter your private > LAN. I use the "pf" packet filter as firewall on the FreeBSD box that I > use as slimserver, fileserver and NAT router at home. That can only catch spoofed packets which are obviously wrong, e.g. they're non-routable addresses or are from your internal network. It can't detect spoofed packets appearing to come from a valid external network.
> > It is correct that SoftSqueeze can use SSH tunneling, but I guess SSH > encryption / decryption will probably put too much stress on the CPU in > a hardware Squeezebox. And besides, apart from listening to your music > stream what benefit would a hacker gain from sniffing the packets in > the first place... > We're not talking about sniffing, we're talking about attacking the server to get access to the underlying host. -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23525 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
