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Subject: dropping source-routed packets
From: z056716 @ uprc . com (LaCoursiere J. D. (Jeff))
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 08:08:21 +0600
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com

> 
> By the way, wzv's TCP wrapper will drop source routed packets by
> default (ie, if KILL_IP_OPTIONS is defined).
> 
> Other daemon writers should snarf the relevant code, imho;
> it's only 10 lines or so.

How does it do that?  I thought source routing was handled by the networking
code in the kernel.

j



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