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RE: [SCTP-Discussion] SCTP queries


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  • From: Tuexen Michael <Michael.Tuexen AT icn.siemens.de>
  • To: "'discussion AT sctp.de'" <discussion AT sctp.de>
  • Subject: RE: [SCTP-Discussion] SCTP queries
  • Date: Fri Jun 29 10:58:01 2001
  • List-id: SCTP Discussions <discussion.sctp.de>

Dear all,
see my comments below.
Best regards
Michael

Michael Tuexen Tel.: +49 89 722 47210
Siemens AG Fax: +49 89 722 48212
ICN WN CS SE 5 E-mail:
Michael.Tuexen AT icn.siemens.de

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kusum
> [SMTP:kusum AT india.mercurykr.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 5:00 AM
> To: discussion
> Subject: [SCTP-Discussion] SCTP queries
>
> Hi! all,
>
> Here are some queries for SCTP which i couldn't understand...
> 1)what kind of security is provided by cookie mechanism and how?As every
> feature of SCTP has reason behind it like multiple streams resolves the
> problem of head of line blocking,and during association iniitalization
> we deal the temperory TCB for resolving SYN attack problem of TCP .So
> for which purpose we r using cookie mechanism?
>
[Tuexen Michael] Consider an attacker who is flooding you with
INITs. He is using his own IP address or is using a different
(spoofing).
The receiver will send back INIT-ACKs and forget about the assoc. So
NO resources at the receiver will be reserved for the attacker. Only
if
you got back the COOKIE from the sender of the INIT you will reserve
some
resources. If the attacker is spoofing the IP Address, this will
never happen.
> 2)It is mentioned in RFC that a host is multihomed if it is having
> multiple transport address.but i think it shouldn't be like this.it
[Tuexen Michael] Where do you find this? I don't find the
place where this is stated. I find a lot of 'multi-homed endpoints'.
> should be a host is multihomed if it support multiple IP addresses.
> as we know that if we have one IP address and two ports
> in that case we have two different transport address with same IP
> address and different port numbers.but i think this is not
> multihoming.multihoming is same port different IP addresses.Please
> correct me......
> regards.....
> KK
>
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