TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama)

James haesu at towardex.com
Tue Apr 20 18:54:16 UTC 2004


now let me take a bite at this :P

i can see this 'attack' operational against a multihop bgp session that's
not md5'd.

now the question is... would this also affect single-hop bgp sessions?
my understanding would be no, as single-hops require ttl set to 1.

-J


On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:36:09PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
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