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Subject: Re: RIP packets on perimeter net--is it a bad thing?
From: paul @ hawksbill . sprintmrn . com (Paul Ferguson)
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 22:20:15 -0500 (EST)
To: freeman @ MR . Net (Alex Li)
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <199501190227 . UAA05937 @ riverside . mr . net> from "Alex Li" at Jan 18, 95 08:27:50 pm

> 
> I'm in the process of testing the Drawbridge (from TAMU) filtering package 
> and found that it doen't filter any outgoing UDP packets (this fact is 
> documented too but I didn't read close enough the first time).  And hence 
> the RIP packets from my internal router are showing up on the perimeter net. 
>  Is this a bad thing?
>

Well, it certainly _could_be_ a problem. 

ObCaveat: It it ain't truly invisible, it'll be seen.  :-)

- paul

 
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Paul Ferguson                         
US Sprint                                          tel: 703.689.6828
Managed Network Engineering                   internet: paul @
 hawk .
 sprintmrn .
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Reston, Virginia  USA                             http://www.sprintmrn.com 


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