On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:31:41PM +0100, Cedric Berger wrote:
> Henning Brauer wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:05:58AM +0100, Cedric Berger wrote:
> >>Henning Brauer wrote:
> >>>that is in practice true for 99% of you.
> >>>
> >>>the state key does not include the interface, but the direction.
> >>>as long as routes do not change that is equivalent to beeing bound to
> >>>the interface.
> >>Yes, for "normal" (i.e. not spoofed) packets.
> >og cedric, please stop that, this is horribly misleading.
> >you don't get your packet in on the wrong interface until you match 
> >the state, and that requires a _lot_ of information (match the 
> >sequence number window, for example), taht makes it close to 
> >impossible.
> Not all the word is TCP.
> I took IKE as an example, since it:
>   - Uses UDP (therefore no sequence number)
>   - Use highly predictable source/destination ports (500/500).
> 
> And the other protocols that can be passed "keep state" do not
> even have a port...

it is still everything but easy to spoof packets onto an extsing 
connection. don't make stuff worse than it was; it wasn't.

> >it's certainly neat that we can bind states to interfaces now, but it 
> >is not as if the previous behaviour is a problem.
> I said "it will protect *a bit* better against spoofed packets."
> Not: what was before was utterly wrong

well it sounded like that

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