XP allowing IP spoofing?

[Anon]

In learning about faking an IP, I have found some sites and news reports that state that XP's down fall is the security. Even one of the articles said that it is easy for people to place the wrong IP addresses (meaning someones like me or you) and then sending it out.
DOes anyone know about this?

[rbenfield]

Yes, There was a good article on www.grc.com about this back before xp was ever released.

[rbenfield]

the exact link is <a href="http://grc.com/dos/intro.htm">http://grc.com/dos/intro.htm</a>. He has a great article about a DoS attack against him. All very interesting. A long story with a lot of links to follow and read but interesting none the less. This is all very off topic though. This forum is really intended to talk about php coding...

[rbenfield]

Hi Mellissa,

sorry I just got saw your other post under the other thread. FYI, they dont have to spoof if you are on a fire wall, often everything behind the firewall will have the same IP address, that being the IP Address of the firewall not of your particular computer. So all they have to do is be on the same network with you. In corporate environments where a firewall is used, the firewall or proxy usually handles all internal addressing and only exposes its ip address to the website or email server you are connecting to. This means that everyone on your network that uses that firewall would likely show up with the same IP address.

Hope that helps,
Richard

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