Hi,
Sorry for not making it clear. I believe RFC 2644
actually suggested that routers MUST default to
disabling directed broadcast except explicitly
configured to do so. But I guess one can never
be too careful. :-)
yushun.
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Yu-Shun Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yu-Shun Wang writes:
> : I think it's specified in RFC 2644. It might be useful
> : to site it in the comments of the code.
>
> There were several incidents in the early days of the internet when
> this functionality was in place that caused all kinds of problems.
> Look at the trouble that Jordan got into in 1983 (search the RISKS
> archives) when he send a broadcast to all (which sent the wall to the
> entire internet at the time). While this wasn't exactly a network
> level broadcast, consider carefully the ramifications.
>
> There are many cases where could be useful turns into a security
> nightmare, so I'd be extremely reluctant to include this patch...
>
> Warner
>
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