> Or rather, for illusion-of-security reasons.  There's not that much
> software left that makes security decisions based on packets' source
> addresses, and such software has always been buggy.

Sendmail, relay checks.

Do you really want to turn your machine into an open-relay by allowing
source routing?

-wolfgang
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