Re: New API / POM modules to merge....

[Sven Anders <anders@anduras.de>]

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Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

|> Some question:
|>
|> ~ 1. "TTL or HOPLIMIT: no, it's dangerous"
|> ~    Why? Don't use it, if it's dangerous - or does it crash the kernel?
|
| It (TTL) in it's current form violates fundamental aspects of IP, easily
| allowing the administrator to "accidently" create configurations which
| will crash the network.
|
| In case of the TTL match it should be sufficient to change
|
|         if (new_ttl != iph->ttl) {
| to
|         if (new_ttl < iph->ttl) {
|
| and remove the increase option to make it safe, but at the same time you
| loose a lot of the powers of this target so it may not be desireable to
| make this change..

But does a possible misconfiguration justify this?
Simply mark this match as "DANGEROUS" or make the 'Increase' optional.

You did not remove pointers from C, because you could do something wrong... :-)

Regards
~ Sven

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