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

Fri Apr 23 15:00:20 UTC 2004

--On 23 April 2004 09:09 -0400 "Patrick W.Gilmore" <patrick at ianai.net> 
wrote:

>> (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..)
>
> Well, if that were the case, then you wouldn't need multi-hop to do
> loopback peering.

Um, only if there were no intervening hops: i.e. where the
physical mesh is

  A---B
  |   |
  C---D

Then A<->D, and B<->C peering requires multihop anyway.

Alex