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Re: SYN spoofing

  • From: Greg A. Woods
  • Date: Wed Jul 28 14:06:37 1999

[ On Wednesday, July 28, 1999 at 11:21:35 (-0400), Daniel Senie wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: SYN spoofing
>
> I suspect most deployed routers do at least some filtering of packets on
> most or all interefaces. In the past, some routers couldn't do these
> lookups efficiently on source addresses, but that's really an
> implementation issue. It's *possible* to design hardware that can handle
> it, if there's a business case for doing so. ISPs should be interested
> in doing such filtering.

In fact it's easy to buy off-the-shelf hardware today that can do
wire-speed filtering, assuming one has worked such costs into the budget
of building a network backbone....

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