Hi,
BeOS 4.0 also has a shoddy tcp/ip stack which increases the ISS by 1 per
connection. This may been fixed by now, I haven't tested it in over a
year.
-HD
Andrew van der Stock wrote:
> The ISS is incremented by 1 for each connection, and is thus easily
> spoofable and hijackable. The predictability exposes sideband information
> about when the switch is being used by other (possibly legitimate) users.
>
> The hosts behind the switch are NOT affected by this issue. The faked IP
> addresses offer the predictability of the hosted platform (ie Linux 2.2.14
> == good luck!, Win9x == trivial joke).
