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

[Mike Tancsa]

At 06:10 PM 21/04/2004, Gary Corcoran wrote:

>>In any event, it still seems like a TTL of 255 is overkill for this 
>>application...
>
>Unless, of course, you want to only accept packets with TTL
>of 255.  This might be fine when both ends are setup to work
>this way.

Yes, but thats the whole point of it.  By having the 2 BGP speakers *only* 
accept packets that have a TTL of 255, you are safe to bet it has not come 
across another router as no one has decremented the TTL value.

         ---Mike