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Re: RemailerNet
In message <[email protected]> [email protected] writes:
>
> Jim Dixon says:
> > You can send from a very large network and forge your TCP/IP or
> > (more difficult) Ethernet source address. But I can sit on the same
> > network, build a table relating TCP/IP to ethernet (or whatever)
> > addresses, and filter out messages that should not be there. There
> > are commerical packages that do this sort of thing.
>
> Huh?
>
> If you are sitting on a network in England, which you appear to be, I
> defy you to record anything at all about the ethernet addresses of the
> machines that originated this message. [etc]
Forgive my casual use of the English language. "A may send from a very
large network and forge his or her TCP/IP or Ethernet source address.
But if B is on the same network, he or she can build a table ..."
The size of the source network is related to the difficulty of
determining which machine is forging addresses. If you are ... sorry,
one is on a large network, forgery without detection is much easier.
Assuming idiocy on the part of correspondents may make for easy
and fast responses, but it injects an undue amount of noise.
--
Jim Dixon