Need clarification by example
Rusty Russell
rusty@linuxcare.com.au
Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:50:13 +0930
In message <011c01bf9b3b$63952e00$640a0a0a@KEVIN> you write:
> Hack to suppress redirects: I had figured this out myself but I was hoping
> there was something more elegant. Guess not.
Hi Kevin,
Catching it in the NAT code itself is on my mental TODO list.
> I assume the policys for INPUT and OUTPUT on the filter table default to
> ACCEPT.
Yep!
> Are the above set of rules considered adequate protection?
>
> I thought at one point it was necessary to filter on the output chains to
> prevent spoofing (couldn't use rp_filter because it causes problems,
> especially on a system with 3 NICs).
Filtering spoofing out on input chains is possible: depends on how
complicated your routing is. If you don't do asymmetric routing, it
should work.
Rusty.
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Hacking time.