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Date:      Wed, 19 Dec 2001 18:44:05 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
Cc:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.ORG>, net@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Processing IP options reveals IPSTEALH router
Message-ID:  <20011219184405.A69668@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011219190533.W57795-100000@news1.macomnet.ru>
References:  <20011219181929.A20425@comp.chem.msu.su> <20011219190533.W57795-100000@news1.macomnet.ru>

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On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 07:23:55PM +0300, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> 
> Hello Yar,
> 
> On 18:19+0300, Dec 19, 2001, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I ran into an absolutely clear, but year-old PR pointing out that
> > a router in the IPSTEALTH mode will reveal itself when processing
> > IP options: kern/23123.
> >
> > The fix proposed seems clean and right to me: don't do IP options
> > at all when in the IPSTEALTH mode.  Does anyone have objections?
> > If no, I'll commit the fix.
> >
> 
> First of all we should decide what IPSTEALTH is for. Is it just a
> Ruslan's net.inet.ip.decttl or it should really stealth the fact of
> the routing? If the latter how do we behave in source routing case?
> 
Do you have net.inet.ip.accept_sourceroute=1 on one of your
publicly accessible routers?  If so, could you please tell
me its IP address?  :-)


Cheers,
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