From owner-freebsd-security Tue May 29 18:36:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DF6637B423 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 18:36:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA24724; Wed, 30 May 2001 03:36:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Crist Clark" Cc: Liran Dahan , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Syn+Fin (Setup) And TCP RST References: <010f01c0e888$5ab3c120$b88f39d5@a> <200105291052100670.246E525C@smtp> <012601c0e88c$3e6efb20$b88f39d5@a> <3B141E8A.5AC7E84E@globalstar.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 30 May 2001 03:36:16 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3B141E8A.5AC7E84E@globalstar.com> Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Crist Clark" writes: > I would be surprised if TCP_RESTRICT_RST is interfering with this. IIRC, > the code for "spoofing" these RSTs in the firewall lives in other parts > of the kernel from that generating "real" RSTs (where TCP_RESTRICT_RST > would have its effects). I wrote the code, and I can guarantee you that TCP_RESTRICT_RST will not affect RSTs sent by the firewall. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message