Re: Source Route fail....help

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From: Matthew Geier
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 00:00

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smilie@jolt.mpx.com.au (Anthony Rumble) writes:

>BUT.... I disagree with your statement that Source Routing should
>be enabled.. Source Routing is a potential security risk, I wont

 Source Routing is also a very good diagnostic aid. Unfortunatly, like
many tools, weather it is good or bad is in the hands of the wielder of
such tools.
 While being amazing usefull for debugging routing problems, it also 
allows certain types of attack to be made.

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From: matthew@sleeper.apana.org.au (Matthew Geier)
Subject: Re: Source Route fail....help
Date: 1996/03/29
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