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candiddevmikelast Saturday at 7:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

Don't you have problems with clients using the wrong source address and not matching firewall rules?


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kstrauseryesterday at 4:00 AM

Different person here, but no. I never write firewall rules based on individual source addresses. They’re too easy to fake. And with IPv6’s privacy extensions, you never know what source address a given machine will have anyway.

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gsprlast Saturday at 8:22 PM

No. Admittedly, my firewall rules are all about granting something extra beyond the basics. I only do this for clients I care about anyway, so I can always tell them to use the right address.