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ipopts

The ipopts keyword is used to check if a specific IP option is present.

The following options may be checked:

rr
- Record Route
eol
- End of list
nop
- No Op
ts
- Time Stamp
sec
- IP Security
esec
- IP Extended Security
lsrr
- Loose Source Routing
lsrre
- Loose Source Routing (For MS99-038 and CVE-1999-0909)
ssrr
- Strict Source Routing
satid
- Stream identifier
any
- any IP options are set

The most frequently watched for IP options are strict and loose source routing which aren't used in any widespread internet applications.



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Eugene Misnik 2013-05-08