On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 08:54:50PM +0300, Maxim Konovalov wrote: > On 19:49+0300, Dec 19, 2001, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 07:23:55PM +0300, Maxim Konovalov wrote: > > > > > > > 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? > > > > Are there any reasons for a router not to decrement IP TTL besides > > trying to stay invisible to a third party? > > imho there are not. I've asked because ru's net.inet.ip.decttl means > "do not decrement TTL" but not "hide the fact of the routing". > Nope, my net.inet.ip.decttl is the decrementor, it may be 1 (by default), 0 (to hide this router), or 2, 3, etc.
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