On Tuesday 03 June 2003 19:45, Ed White wrote: > On Monday 02 June 2003 21:24, Dries Schellekens wrote: > > ttl Neither side of the connection is allowed to reduce > > their IP TTL. An attacker may send a packet such that it reach- es > > the firewall, affects the firewall state, and expires before > > reaching the destination host. reassemble tcp will raise the TTL > > of all packets back up to the highest value seen on the connection. > > This is dangerous. > > > Ed
Newbie question : In what way is this dangerous? /Sigfred
