Re: Alternate and/or hidden infrastructure addresses (BGP/TCP RST/SYN vulnerability)

[Alex Bligh <alex () alex org uk>]

--On 23 April 2004 09:09 -0400 "Patrick W.Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net> 
wrote:

> > (TTL should only be decremented when _forwarding_, and I don't think
> > you could argue that you need to _forward_ a packet from your ingress
> > interface to your _loopback_ interface..)
>
> Well, if that were the case, then you wouldn't need multi-hop to do
> loopback peering.

Um, only if there were no intervening hops: i.e. where the
physical mesh is

 A---B
 |   |
 C---D

Then A<->D, and B<->C peering requires multihop anyway.

Alex