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From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
To: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, snortwiz@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: OSDL Bugzilla #2399: A user can remotely route a packet through eth0 on a Linux machine
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:15:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40A12646.7080605@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF94DCEE79.E30FBAF0-ON88256E91.0067773D-88256E91.0067C495@us.ibm.com>

David Stevens wrote:
> Routing is something done between different hosts. Hosts normally
> will accept packets for any local  address, regardless of
> which interface it was received on.
> 
> That's not a bug; that's how almost everything works.

I think the only issue here is if an application that
binds to an interface should see packets coming in
from another - if that is what is happening here?.

thanks,
Nivedita

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-11 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-11 18:07 OSDL Bugzilla #2399: A user can remotely route a packet through eth0 on a Linux machine Nivedita Singhvi
2004-05-11 18:53 ` David Stevens
2004-05-11 19:15   ` Nivedita Singhvi [this message]
2004-05-11 20:53     ` Olaf Kirch

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