On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:06:12AM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:14:03PM +0200, Sake Blok wrote:
> > Regarding the Expert Info, since there are packets with all kinds of TTL's 
> > and it would take a broader look at all frames to discover the right TTL, I 
> > would say it would be a bit tricky to create such an expert info item. 
> > Also, filtering on TTL alone won't do it, as you would need to save these 
> > frames to a new file first, otherise the bogus frames will still be used 
> > for reassembly.
> 
> Adding an expert item should be easy: If there's more than one TTL value seen 
> in a single TCP stream, that either means that there are alternate paths with 
> different amounts of hops in there (which is perfectly possible but still 
> worth an info item) or it is some sort of obfuscation, which is also worth an 
> info item.  Whether/how to handle that case in the reassemble code is another 
> thing.

Well I didn't look at SniffJoke sources, but if hop count decrease, then 
packets send by 
SniffJoke will reach target system - and smth bad might happen :)

if hop count increase we might be lucky enough and don't recv bogus packets.
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