Alternate and/or hidden infrastructure addresses (BGP/TCP RST/SYN vulnerability)

Fri Apr 23 08:07:05 UTC 2004

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Patrick W.Gilmore wrote:
> Hrmmm, would the GTSM work with loopback peering?  ISTR it allowed a 
> TTL of 254, which should make it to the loopback interface.

Only flawed implementations have to use TTL of 254 when you have a 
session between two adjacent loopbacks.  But I think those still 
exist...

(TTL should only be decremented when _forwarding_, and I don't think
you could argue that you need to _forward_ a packet from your ingress
interface to your _loopback_ interface..)

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