Re: Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection

["David L. Craig" <dlc@g1.com>]

As Christoph Lameter wrote:

> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:19:46 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>
> To: "David L. Craig" <dlc@g1.com>
> cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Worldnet.att.net via Linux PPP Connection
> Message-ID: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.93.960913081829.5681A-100000@waterf.org>
> 
> On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, David L. Craig wrote:
> 
> dlc> I guess I wasn't clear.  I wasn't refering to routing
> dlc> protocols as much as the ability of packets to be
> dlc> source-routed through the system.

> Per default source routing under Linux is disabled. I
> still dont know what the security issue is you are
> referring to?

Are you certain all distributions, past and present,
disable source routing by default?  I was under the
impression that some of the earlier ones did not.