From: BSK (bishan4u@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 05 2005 - 09:16:38 EDT
Thanks for the email Sumit.
> i dont think ttl value is used now a days for OS
> fingerprinting.
Well don't know much about that but I still use it.
> Eg. u can differentitate only betweena windows
> machine and a linux machine
> based on ttl value,but if u have to differentiate
> say between different
> kernals then ttl field wont help. Also remember the
You can differentiate between linux kernels too.
Redhat 9 has a ttl of 64 but the kernel-2.4.xx used
255. I don't have the exact details but got it
verified from one of the docs whose link was sent
earlier in a reply.
> ttl value which u will
> get will be (ttl returned by machine (minus)- no. of
> routers in between),
> that is the reason why ttl field cant be used for
> fingerprinting.
Using traceroute you can always get the exact ttl
value. Thats how I do it. Add ttl with double the
number of hops found between the source and
destination.
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