[PLUG] mangle rule to foil idiot ISPs

[Carla Schroder]

On Thursday 28 September 2006 11:13, Aaron Burt wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:38:45AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > iptables -t mangle -A OUTPUT -j TTL --ttl-set 125
> > 
> > The idea is to foil idiot ISPs who don't want users sharing their Internet 
> > connections by setting all TTLs to the same value.
> 
> Aroo?  I remember some theoretical analyses counting the number of NATed
> devices using portnums and suchlike, but TTL varies anyway, dunnit?

Good question. I figured there must be more than one way to hunt down fiendish 
scofflaws. It's not something I'm familiar with, since I've always had good 
ISPs. I heard about this via a couple of different sources.

> 
> > At any rate, does it look right?
> 
> Works for me,  all outgoing packets get the selected TTL.

Thanks for checking.

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