Re: Source Routing

From: Brad Whitehead (whiteheb@fonfon.net)
Date: Sat Mar 25 2000 - 18:15:25 EST


Hi Michael,

At 08:57 AM 3/25/00 -0500, you wrote:
> That being said... The chances of you getting source routing to
>work over a significant path in the net are extremely slim.

Thanks for taking time to awnser this, you awnsered almost all my
questions. Even if the awnser was not the one I wanted to hear :) I
realize that source-routed packets are a security concern, but had no idea
that anything except strict firewalls were blocking them. I would still
like to test this out, do you still have a copy of that source route
enabled telnet sitting around? I would love to get a copy. Sounds like it
would be a decent tool to test if any routers are filtering packets with
the source-route flag set.

> Source routing is supported but what it sounds like is that you
>want to set up a source routing table in the kernel to source route
>packets even if the app has not set the source route option on the socket.

Yep, I wanted to be able to do this with applications I do not have the
source to. eg. windows boxes behind a linux masq server.

Brad.

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