Re: [Devil-linux-develop] freshmeat.net: Project details for IP Tables network magic SysRq

[Diego T. <dt...@co...>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:54:28PM -0500, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > 
> > I know. But you would not enable it from any IP, would you? 
> 
> But IP spoofing is easy, and it's not like there is a conversation going
> on.  All someone has to do is spoof the source IP and send a packet.

i dare you to do any ip spoofing nowadays :)

you isp has filters that prevents you from doing that... for sure!

> > Maybe those numbers can be supplied on some other way in the future. 
> > May let's mail the author. What do you think?
> 
> Yes, it would be nice if the numbers could be supplied as an option when
> loading the module, and as an option in the client program (along with
> the port number).  As it is now, I wouldn't include it in DL.

if the author has made the port number configurable, i don't think that he/she has/wants to put more effort on it...

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