Title | Network Fingerprinting: TTL-Based Router Signatures |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2013 |
Authors | Vanaubel, Y., J-J. Pansiot, P. Mérindol, and B. Donnet |
Conference Name | ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) |
Date Published | 10/2013 |
Conference Location | Barcelona, Spain |
Keywords | fingerprinting, initial TTL, MPLS, network discovery, router signatures |
Abstract | Fingerprinting networking equipment has many potential applications and benefits in network management and security. More generally, it is useful for the understanding of network structures and their behaviors. In this paper, we describe a simple fingerprinting mechanism based on the initial TTL values used by routers to reply to various probing messages. We show that main classes obtained using this simple mechanism are meaningful to distinguish routers |
Citation Key | Van2013a |