Time has something to tell us about network address translation

Elie Bursztein

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Time has something to tell us about network address translation

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Conference	12th Nordic Workshop on Secure IT Systems (NordSec) - 2007
Author	Elie Bursztein
Citation	BibTeX BibTeX `@inproceedings{Bursztein2007Time, title = {Time has something to tell us about network address translation}, author = {Elie Bursztein}, booktitle = {12th Nordic Workshop on Secure IT Systems}, year = {2007}, organization = {Springer} }`

In this paper we introduce a new technique to count the number of host behind a NAT. This technique based on TCP timestamp option, works with Linux and BSD system and therefore is complementary to the previous one base on IPID than does not work for those systems. Our implementation demonstrates the practicability of this method.

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