On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 06:19:29PM +0300, 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.
> 
What if the packet is directed to us?  I think we should still
process options in this case, and the patch in the PR doesn't
seem to do it.

<PS>
I was going to replace IPSTEALTH functionality with the
net.inet.ip.decttl knob.  Setting it to 0 would match the
IPSTEALTH behavior, the default value will be 1.
</PS>


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