On Saturday 24 July 2004 12:24 pm, adderek wrote:
> David Cary Hart wrote:
> > I must ask a dumb question. Why would one want to mangle TTL or filter
> > on TTL?
>
> For example if you want to make little network with your frends where
> everyone pay their part of internet-connection price and you don't want
> anyone to connect more than one computer into it so they can't make
> their own subnetworks to pay less than others.
What stops them doing the same thing with the TTL value in their packets,
before they reach you?
Or just using a proxy which creates its own packets anyway?
Or using an SSH tunnel to forward the other traffic?
Or using a different O/S which sets a different initial TTL value than you're
assuming, when it sends packets?
Antony.
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