Re: Fake Source IP

From: Shawn Bayern (shawn.bayern@yale.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 01:00:01 EST


On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Sasha Peter Oblak wrote:

> Hello
>
> How does one send an packet to someone, but have the source IP of the
> packet be of a different computer on the network? I know you can use
> bind() to bind a different IP address to the packet that one sends.

Right, but you can't bind() to an address you don't have. (Try it!) I
believe you need a raw socket to rewrite the source addresses manually; I
can't think of any way around that.

Shawn



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