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How would you detect IP spoofing?

Cyber Criminals have long employed the tactic of masking their true identity. In IP spoofing, an
attacker gains unauthorized access to a computer or a network by making it appear that a
malicious message has come from a trusted machine, by “spoofing” the IP address of that
machine.
How would you detect IP spoofing?

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A.
Check the IPID of the spoofed packet and compare it with TLC checksum. If the numbers
match then it is spoofed packet

B.
Probe a SYN Scan on the claimed host and look for a response SYN/FIN packet,if the
connection completes then it is a spoofed packet

C.
Turn on ‘Enable Spoofed IP Detection’ in Wireshark,you will see a flag tick if the packet is
spoofed

D.
Sending a packet to the claimed host will result in a reply. If the TTL in the reply is not the same
as the packet being checked then it is a spoofed packet

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