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Source Routing

advICE :Countermeasures :Firewalls :Filters : Source Routing
A common filter on a firewall is to disallow all "source-routed" traffic. They can be useful in testing, but source-routed traffic can easily be used by hackers to break into the system by "TCP session hijacking". This doesn't prevent hijacking, but makes it a lot harder.
  • q217336 -On WinNT 4.x, SP5 introduces the ability to disable source routing.

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