Subject: Re: ipf trivial question
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/09/2003 14:29:27
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 01:25:50PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> If such packets (packets coming from the internet with a RFC1918 IP as source
> IP) with your IP as dest IP comes in, you box will try to anserw it. This
> mean it'll send a packet *to* an RFC1918 IP on the WAN which is wrong.
> This can be used for e.g. some DOS.

Yes thank you - I was being plain stupid. (I'll blame my cold)

Cheers,

Patrick