From d218d11133d888f9745802146a50255a4781d37a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:28:01 -0800 Subject: tcp: Generalized TTL Security Mechanism This patch adds the kernel portions needed to implement RFC 5082 Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM). It is a lightweight security measure against forged packets causing DoS attacks (for BGP). This is already implemented the same way in BSD kernels. For the necessary Quagga patch http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/dev/17389 Description from Cisco http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_3t/12_3t7/feature/guide/gt_btsh.html It does add one byte to each socket structure, but I did a little rearrangement to reuse a hole (on 64 bit), but it does grow the structure on 32 bit This should be documented on ip(4) man page and the Glibc in.h file also needs update. IPV6_MINHOPLIMIT should also be added (although BSD doesn't support that). Only TCP is supported, but could also be added to UDP, DCCP, SCTP if desired. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/in.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/in.h') diff --git a/include/linux/in.h b/include/linux/in.h index b615649db129..583c76f9c30f 100644 --- a/include/linux/in.h +++ b/include/linux/in.h @@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ struct in_addr { #define IP_ORIGDSTADDR 20 #define IP_RECVORIGDSTADDR IP_ORIGDSTADDR +#define IP_MINTTL 21 + /* IP_MTU_DISCOVER values */ #define IP_PMTUDISC_DONT 0 /* Never send DF frames */ #define IP_PMTUDISC_WANT 1 /* Use per route hints */ -- cgit