[ale] little bit of security advice needed

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Dow Hurst wrote:
> Is it possible to break thru the Linksys router with spoofed source 
> packets from an external source?  Has anyone tried this?  I was talking 
> with a guy who explained to me that a IPchains masquerading firewall I 
> had installed at a academic lab could be hacked by sending a spoofed 
> source packet containing an internal address of the masqueraded LAN. I
> probably didn't have a rule in place to deny such coming in on the 
> external interface, but don't have the rules to look at to check.

The firewalls I've setup denied these per the book Linux Firewalls I've 
used.  This is, of course, on Linux boxes not a Linksys.


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