Other possible protection against RST/SYN attacks (was Re: TCP RST attack

Jacques A. Vidrine nectar at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 21 09:55:39 PDT 2004


On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 12:30:40PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 
> One other technique that might help with respect to this attack is what 
> Cisco implemented, commonly known as the "TTL hack"
> 
> http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/hack.html

More commonly known as GTSM and RFC 3682.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / nectar at celabo.org / jvidrine at verio.net / nectar at freebsd.org


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