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Re: Source Route fail....help

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From: Joel M. Hoffman
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 00:00
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>: ICMP: 138.194.10.10: Source Route Failed.
>: ICMP: 204.127.129.3: Source Route Failed.
>:  
>: What is this??  How do i fix this??
>
>How do you fix this?  You don't.  You could enable source routed frames
>but this is not encouraged if you don't understand the message in the 
>first place :-)  Enabling these frames at the kernel level would 
>certainly increase the vulnerability of your machine to attacks from 
>the outside world.

Does this mean that the "source route failed" message could be an
indication of at attempted attack on the machine?

-Joel
(joel@exc.com)
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From: joel@excalibur (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: Re: Source Route fail....help
Date: 1996/03/31
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