Linux Netfilter discussions
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Stephen Isard" <y8ju2p902@sneakemail.com>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iptables rules for cups printer discovery
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:28:41 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21281-33344@sneakemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48A5ABE7.2040008@riverviewtech.net>

> Um, if they have gotten a system in to your LAN I think you have bigger 
> problems.  If this is a real concern, I'd suggest that you look in to 802.1x 
> (port) authentication.

This is a large university department where students and visitors use 
the lan.  The computing officers are highly competent and doing their 
best to provide security, but, as you know, it's a constant battle.

> Also remember that you can adjust the length of time for the "recent" window.

Right.

> You can probably also mitigate the window by looking for the closing 
> connection (at least with TCP)

This particular case involves udp.

Thanks for your advice.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-15 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-14 18:51 iptables rules for cups printer discovery Stephen Isard
2008-08-14 20:00 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-08-14 20:23   ` Stephen Isard
2008-08-14 20:37     ` Jan Engelhardt
     [not found]       ` <11653-43715@sneakemail.com>
     [not found]         ` <alpine.LNX.1.10.0808141744490.18538@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
2008-08-14 23:01           ` Stephen Isard
2008-08-15  1:35 ` Grant Taylor
2008-08-15  1:53   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-08-15  2:00     ` Grant Taylor
2008-08-15  2:04       ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-08-15  2:14         ` Grant Taylor
2008-08-15  2:26           ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-08-15 13:10         ` Stephen Isard
2008-08-15 13:23           ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-08-15 14:17             ` Stephen Isard
2008-08-15 15:21               ` Grant Taylor
2008-08-15 15:38                 ` Stephen Isard
2008-08-15 16:16                   ` Grant Taylor
2008-08-15 16:28                     ` Stephen Isard [this message]
2008-08-15 18:01                       ` Grant Taylor
2008-08-15 15:16           ` Grant Taylor

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=21281-33344@sneakemail.com \
    --to=y8ju2p902@sneakemail.com \
    --cc=netfilter@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox