On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 11:20 -0700, Peter Memishian wrote:
> > The aforementioned bug's evaluation makes a cryptic reference to this
>  > "feature" being used by "security-conscious" customers, but I don't see
>  > how that can possibly be legitimate.  Maybe someone who is more
>  > security-conscious than I can shed some light on that evaluation.
> 
> I suppose if you wanted to ensure a given host (A) can only be reached by
> a subset of other hosts, you could explicitly configure the ARP table of
> those other hosts and delete the ARP entry from host A.

I see, but it seems to me like that's something that ipfilter could
handle that more effectively.  I wonder if someone actually depends on
this behavior, which is always a tough question...

-Seb


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