{"id":126,"date":"2001-08-10T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2001-08-11T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=126"},"modified":"2007-12-30T23:10:34","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T07:10:34","slug":"simple-solution-to-ip-address-spoofing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Simple solution to IP address spoofing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/cringely\/pulpit\/pulpit20010809.html\" title=\"9 August 2001\">I, Cringley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Here's another guy with a fix I couldn't find fault with. \"My TCP skills are somewhat rusty, but isn't the biggest problem with raw sockets that people can masquerade as some other IP address, and become untraceable? Wouldn't it much simpler to program the routers not to accept packets generated from an IP address out of range? For instance, (the place where I work) uses an address range starting with 35.8.x &#8212; I'm pretty sure in the last year we have added a filter so that we don't send any traffic from some other range. It seems like we could legislate that every ISP has to be a good citizen and only send out packets from its own IP addresses for a quick fix to the problem.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now why didn't <strong><em>I<\/em><\/strong> think of that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As seen on I, Cringley: Here's another guy with a fix I couldn't find fault with. \"My TCP skills are somewhat rusty, but isn't the biggest problem with raw sockets that people can masquerade as some other IP address, and become untraceable? Wouldn't it much <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=126\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}