[openib-general] InfiniBand EndPort Liveness and Responsiveness

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 14:34, James Lentini wrote:
> I found several referencess like this one with Google:
> 
>   http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=10114
> 
>   The remote host answers to an ICMP timestamp request. This
>   allows an attacker to know the date which is set on your machine.
> 
>   This may help him to defeat all your time based authentication
>   protocols.
> 
>   Solution : filter out the ICMP timestamp requests (13), and the
>   outgoing ICMP timestamp replies (14).
> 
> Given that, I'd recommend removing it.

It will be removed from the next version of the writeup. Thanks.

-- Hal