From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: ECN: Clearing the air
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:15:48 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0101272110470.24762-100000@shell.cyberus.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010128150813.A1595@metastasis.f00f.org>
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 07:23:51PM -0500, jamal wrote:
>
> suggested blocking ECN. Article at:
>
> http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?focus=ids&content=/focus/ids/articles/portscan.html
>
> the site is now ATM -- can someone briefly explain the logic in
> blocking it?
>
It is Queso they quoted not nmap, sorry -- same thing.
The idea is to "detect" port scanners.
Queso sets the two TCP reserved bits in the SYN (now allocated for ECN).
Some OSes reflect that back in the SYN-ACK (Linux < 2.0.2? for example
was such a culprit).
Queso could then use that information to narow down the OS detection.
I suppose the idea is to detect Queso and react to it ;->
cheers,
jamal
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[not found] <Pine.GSO.4.30.0101271809070.24762-100000@shell.cyberus.ca>
2001-01-28 0:23 ` jamal
2001-01-28 2:08 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-28 2:15 ` jamal [this message]
2001-01-28 21:55 ` Pavel Machek
2001-01-29 16:21 ` Walter Hofmann
2001-01-30 2:11 ` jamal
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