OK, but you still are not considering the regular end user that does not
compile their copy of VirtualBox.
As you say I can select to not have host-only but where is the ability
to not have UDP? I think it must be considered and built in.
On 05/11/2011 09:52 AM, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Perry Halbert<[email protected]> wrote:
Question,
Why not put this in an Extension Pack as an addon instead of changing the
base code for everyone?
Developing Extension Pack is harder than this patch. (it means, that
only very big features will make it into ext.pack), or features with
incompatible licenses (like VNC).
Myself I like the idea of being able to either have this or not. Seems to me
that is one reason that the Ext. Pack was implemented. What about the
security of the added UDP protocol such as three-way handshake that is
missing in UDP used for the validity of the claimed source address. I know
that all of this seems small but to rush to change the base without
considering the underlaying issues seems wrong.
If the decision is to include this in the base then there should also be a
way to disable it built in as well.
Just don't use it if you don't like it. I don't use "Host-only
network", because for my use cases, loopback + bridge cover this need.
UDP tunnel is not secured, and this is by design, and documented in the docs.
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