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

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Wed Apr 21 10:24:39 PDT 2004


At 12:54 PM 21/04/2004, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
>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.


Are there any "bad things" that can happen by doing this ?

         ---Mike 



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