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

On Tue Apr 20, 2004 at 02:54:16PM -0400, James wrote:

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.

All it requires is for the TTL to be 1 (or 0, I can't remember which) when it's received. Just launch your packets with a TTL of the number of hops between you and the victim, and that's that bit sorted... Simon