Greetings and Salutations:

From: c0ldbyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Mon, 2 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I *just* got my FreeBSD setup stable and working with a  KDE
>> GUI. :-).  I know, easy for you guys but this is the first time I
>> have set up FreeBSD with automatic updates.  I settled on
>> FreeBSD 5.4 after many tries.
> Works nicely if you have access to root on a local machine for lan use

Exactly.  Works in Windows also if you work hard enough.

> and the machines have been compiled with bpf support. Other then that

Berkeley Packet Filter is (of course) enabled by default in the GENERIC kernel 
config with the comment that you need bpf for DHCP.

> my testing on these cases over the net "internet" have not yielded any
> proposed results to effect FreeBSD machines. Tried on 4.x & 5.x.
> Any other proof that this yields anything that we need to worry about?.

I haven't really tried extensive testing "over the internet" and I guess that 
would be my question.  Unless you have some kind of filter between you an the 
target machine then I assume that the DOS would work as well across "The 
Internet" as it would locally.  Routers should pass fragmented packets same as 
any other kind of traffic.  What am I missing?

I am thinking of the case where someone has a FreeBSD machine set up as their 
"corporate" firewall.

Ken

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