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

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Date: Sat Sep 10 22:46:59 2005
From: lbromirski at mr0vka.eu.org (Łukasz Bromirski)
Subject: Revised paper on "ICMP attacks against TCP"

Florian Weimer wrote:

>>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).

It's still making a difference and not only on Cisco products. When
You have MTU sized down to 576 it's quite harder to push full BGP
table fast. When MTU is 1500, or something around that, you're just
synchronizing faster, because You may pack more information in one
packet.

There's a bunch of presentations freely available that show performance
of BGP sessions with various network-level tweaks.

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