On Saturday 11 January 2003 04:13 pm, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> But I would naively assume that a router operates a the IP level, and only
> sees the IP payload. Hm... yes, I guess fast routers might just handle
> the buffer around to the next interface out, only replacing MAC addresses,
> hop count, and incrementally adjusting the IP checksum, in which case the
> additional information won't be stopped.

Right, and that's why I'm not concerned - the problem's confined to the local 
LAN.  If it could be exploited from off-LAN, that would be a very different 
level of concern.
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