McGann, Orla and Malone, David (2005) Flow Label Filtering Feasibility. In: EC2ND 2005. Proceedings of the First European Conference on Computer Network Defence, December 15, 2005, School of Computing, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK.

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Abstract

The IPv6 header has a field called the Flow Label field, which was included to help identify flows of packets, mainly for Quality of Service purposes. We propose using this field, and its randomly generated value, as another piece of state to alter related packets in a TCP connection. This will only be possible if the Flow Label field actually remains constant for the duration of connections and will only be useful if the Flow Label is set in a unpredictable way.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Keywords:	IPv6; Flow Label; Stateful Firewalling; SYN Cookies.
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute
Item ID:	1505
Depositing User:	Dr. David Malone
Date Deposited:	12 Aug 2009 16:40
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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