Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (670 mails)

["Thomas Schmidt" <ts@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Spiekey,

I think this is not a very good idea. Just imagine your attacker has a
very high bandwith or  the attackers fakes his source ip address. Then
YOU would attack an other system!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spiekey [mailto:spiekey@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 4:56 PM
> To: suse-security@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: [suse-security] Excotic Firewall Police
> 
> Hello All!
> What would be the advantage or disadvantage of this idea:
> 
> Why not forward the packets, which will be dropped usually, 
> and forward it
> to the source address?
> Forward execpt of dropping.