full-disclosure - Re: hiding routers

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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:00:22 +0200 (CEST)
From: Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@...e.de>
To: Kristian Hermansen <kristian.hermansen@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: hiding routers

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Kristian Hermansen wrote:

Hi,

All better firewalling equipment offers a "stealth-routing" feature;
patches also exist for the Linux kernel. They can be detected using
DF-bit and certain other fields within the IP hdr, depending on
implementation and setup. Not decrementing TTL also does not
mean that it actually forwards packets with TTL 0.

Sebastian

> I brought this question up on another mailing list, but didn't get any
> good answers...
> 
> How common is it that a router does not decrement the TTL of packets,
> such that it is unable to be identified using traceroute?  Choosing
> not to decrement the TTL causes the next router to appear as the hop,
> but the current router to remain hidden.  How does one commonly
> identify such hidden routers in an automated fashion?  And is it
> policy for any organizations to actually do this, or only with certain
> packet types?
> 
> The responses I got were along the lines of "don't do that, it breaks
> tcp/ip and error conditions".  However, I am still interested in how
> likely an organization is to try something like this for both
> legitimate and illegitimate purposes.
> 

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