On 24-jun-2006, at 0:43, Owen DeLong wrote:
Why couldn't the network device do an AH check in hardware before
passing
the
packet to the receive path? If you can get to a point where all
connections
or traffic TO the router should be AH, then, that will help with DOS.
If you care that much, why don't you just add an extra loopback
address, give it an RFC 1918 address, have your peer talk BGP towards
that address and filter all packets towards the actual interface
address of the router?
The chance of an attacker sending an RFC 1918 packet that ends up at
your router is close to zero and even though the interface address
still shows up in traceroutes etc it is bullet proof because of the
filters.
(This works even better with IPv6 link local addresses, those are
guaranteed to be unroutable.)