full-disclosure - Revised paper on "ICMP attacks against TCP"

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Date: Sat Sep 10 15:54:17 2005
From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
Subject: Revised paper on "ICMP attacks against TCP"

* Fernando Gont:

> IIRC, those Cisco products that are not vulnerable to the PMTU just don't 
> implement PMTUD, right?

You can explicitly enable PMTUD if you want ("ip tcp
path-mtu-discovery").  It's recommended to reduce CPU overhead for
processing BGP message (no kidding, apparently it id make a difference
in the past).