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Ethereal

can we captured packets from a network having host working on different platform ?

View Answer   |  Jul 29 2009  3:41 AM GMT
Ethereal, Packets, Network Packet
asked by Chirag888

  5 pts.

What if packet size cannot be represented as a value divisible by 8?

Suppose a packet contains 23 bytes of data, and the MTU of the network is 1024 bytes. We have to make sure the data is divisible by 8. But in this case, that is not possible since if the data is represented as 24 bytes,there will be an extra byte (where do we get it from?) and if the data is...

asked by Somanyquestions

  5 pts.

Java method to reset a packets time to live

I was told that there is a JAVA method to reset a packets time to live. Given that a packet being accepted by a machine that had java on it would create a new header anyway, is the point to increase the TTL? The person made the statement that these packets roam the Internet for years. am I...

View Answer   |  May 16 2009  1:50 PM GMT
TTL reset, Java, Time To Live
asked by Below11

  10 pts.

Obfuscation of destination IP address

A self proclaimed security architect told me that there were hacking attacks where the hacker "obfuscated" the destination IP address to confuse the router into forwarding the packet out all of its interfaces and subsiquently the packet would live forever. In my limited knowledge I was a bit...

View Answer   |  May 16 2009  1:01 PM GMT
Obfuscation, catq, Hacking tools and techniques
asked by Below11

  10 pts.

Inbound traffic is coming from router IP, not internet IP. Why?

Hello, thank you for your time. I have recently noticed a strange occurence going on with inbound traffic. The other day, I helped my friend set up his network. icmp ping was good. while sniffing, I first noticed inbound tcp traffic to me was not coming from my friend's IP address, but coming from...

View Answer   |  Feb 11 2009  6:24 AM GMT
syn, grc, Packet Sniffing
asked by Robert579

  5 pts.

Coding for packet header duplication

I want to know, how to filter packet header duplication. Packets may travel in sequentially over the internet. If the headers duplicate, the traffic will delay. so, I want to block the site that header duplicated. It may be Perl, C++ or other programming languages.

View Answer   |  Sep 16 2008  1:50 AM GMT
Linux, Web development, Web
asked by Yupar

  10 pts.

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