Method for source-spoofed IP packet traceback

• US 20060184690A1
• Filed: 02/15/2006
• Published: 08/17/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Raytheon BBN Technlogies Corp. (Rtx Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BBN Technologies (Rtx Corporation)
• Inventors: Milliken, Walter
• Granted Patent: US 8,059,551 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/238
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/146 Tracing the source of attacks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1466 Active attacks involving interception, injection, modification, spoofing of data unit addresses, e.g. hijacking, packet injection or TCP sequence number attacks

Abstract

Method for source-spoofed internet protocol packet traceback. This is an IP packet traceback technique for locating the origin of a malicious packet, even if the packet'"'"'s IP source address is incorrect (spoofed). This is done by having routers lookup the source address in their routing tables, and mark the relevant entry.

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