[rbridge] TTL only - was RE: New fields in shim header?

Silvano Gai sgai at nuovasystems.com
Thu Oct 12 13:26:03 PDT 2006


Catlin,

I didn't reply to your last point

> 
> I am assuming there is no desire to replicate IPSEC funcationality
> at L2 then *all* of the L2 headers may be forged. I don't see how
> you can claim that any specific one is more trustworthy than
> the others.

Even without IPsec, RBridges can authenticate to each other and forging
an RBridge is much more difficult that using a readily available program
on your PC to spoof the IP or MAC address.

-- Silvano




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