bugtraq - Re: (ICMP attacks against TCP) (was Re: HPSBUX01137 SSRT5954

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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:35:47 +1000 (Australia/ACT)
From: Darren Reed <avalon@...igula.anu.edu.au>
To: dhudes@...es.org (Dana Hudes)
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, Security Alert <secure@...hs.cup.hp.com>,
	bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, Darren Reed <avalon@...igula.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: (ICMP attacks against TCP) (was Re:
	HPSBUX01137 SSRT5954

In some mail from Dana Hudes, sie said:
> 
> you will find a range of MTU sizes in radio links of various sorts which 
> is not just 802.11 but also cellular including GPRS CDMA and WCDMA.
> Now, in many instances there is a proxy between the mobile station and the 
> public network. In fact I wrote a powerpoint presentation summarizing such 
> a paper on transparent TCP proxy in WCDMA and its on my site 
> http://www.networkengineer.biz  (I took a course in wireless 
> architecture).

This website does nothing more than show ads if you are using mozilla.

Please do better than that if you're posting to a public forum.

In many instances, the traffic I've seen between base stations and
mobile phones has a "normal" MTU.  (I worked on software that handles
wireless data.)

Darren
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