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Re: Alternate and/or hidden infrastructure addresses (BGP/TCPRST/SYN vulnerability)

  • From: Alex Bligh
  • Date: Fri Apr 23 11:06:15 2004




--On 23 April 2004 09:09 -0400 "Patrick W.Gilmore" <patrick@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




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