Re: TCP-RST Vulnerability - Doubt

From: Chris Wedgwood
Date: Mon Jun 28 2004 - 09:51:22 EST


On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:22:37PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> The "TTL hack" solution is safer. Make sure sender uses a TTL of
> 255, on the receiver discard all packets with a TTL < 255. You can
> use iptables to implement that on a Linux box.

Breaks with eBGP multi-hop so you have to adjust as required there.


--cw
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