From: Christopher L. Morrow (no email)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 21:36:03 EDT
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Paul Vixie wrote:
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> > More and more there is less and less spoofing, its just not required and
> > it causes more damage with less effort :( Why spoof when you have 1000
> > machines pumping 1 packet per second? (or 10)
>
> leaving the spoofing option open for future generations of attacks,
> rather than having a witch-hunt and tracking down and upgrading every
> insecure edge, is just about the worst thing we could do. because
> when an attacker wants an extra edge, they'll add spoofing to their
> attack profile, and the core's immune system will be totally unprepared.
I don't believe I ever said that the edges shouldn't filter... did I?
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