From: James Turnbull <james@lovedthanlost.net>
To: luke@techfreak.org
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SSH allow only form selected IP'
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:23:49 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41209945.40205@lovedthanlost.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1216.66.189.78.234.1092581976.squirrel@srv01.scriptgods.com>
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luke@techfreak.org wrote:
>I'm definitely not a firewall expert, but isn't it also possible to
>get around
>IPchains using IP spoofing? From what I know ipchains is only
>protected against spoofing by using source address verification.
>
>Or am I way off?
>
>Luke
>
>
A little off. :) Yes you can spoof iptables but not nearly as easily as
hosts.allow can be spoofed. Hosts.allow's verifications procedures are
considerably less sophisticated than those of iptables.
Regards
James
P.S. Generally Ipchains has been replaced by Iptables.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-16 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-14 11:52 Re[2]: SSH allow only form selected IP' luke
2004-08-15 12:58 ` James Turnbull
2004-08-15 13:54 ` Re[2]: " Kev
2004-08-15 14:59 ` luke
2004-08-16 11:23 ` James Turnbull [this message]
2004-08-16 13:37 ` Re[2]: " Kev
2004-08-16 16:30 ` VPN question Tony Gogoi
2004-08-16 17:29 ` Adam Lang
2004-08-16 18:50 ` Tony Gogoi
2004-08-16 18:59 ` Adam Lang
2004-08-18 10:46 ` SSH allow only form selected IP' Stephen Samuel
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2004-08-14 10:34 Kev
2004-08-14 10:54 ` James Turnbull
2004-08-14 11:18 ` Re[2]: " Kev
2004-08-14 11:42 ` James Turnbull
2004-08-14 11:46 ` James Turnbull
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