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Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodney Joffe)
Tue Apr 20 17:49:11 2004

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:42:07 -0700
From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>
To: vijay gill <vgill@vijaygill.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu




vijay gill wrote:
> 
> 
> Yes it does. About 5 mbit of md5 should peg a juniper at 100% according
> to my friend alex.  I have not verified this in the lab.  I suggest
> you try it out.
> 
> Also, this is why the GTSM (ttl hack) was written up ;)

So then you're suggesting that the GTSM is the correct work-around?

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