[atlas] Spoofing the source IP address from a probe?

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 05:35:54PM +0200, Randy Bush wrote:
> > No they cannot. It is a matter of policy first and foremost. It is too
> > easy to loose the trust of the probe hosts and to get a bad name with
> > providers if we have the probes do stuff that is as questionable as
> > source address spoofing.
> 
> <aol>
> 
> thank you
 
To be fair, it was discussed at ripe66 and there was an open 
question as to wether malformed traffic testing of any type 
would be of value (even on an opt-in basis). Arguably, address 
forgery is a subtype of malformed traffic.

I would encourage those in the community who wish to be 
performing individual spoof testing (or instruct others how 
to do so) to use the easy-peasey pointy-clicky CAIDA/CSAIL 
tool: http://spoofer.cmand.org/
(also spoofer.csail.mit.edu, spooftest.net, etc etc)


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