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Date:      Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:56:39 +0200
From:      Jesper Wallin <jesper@ifconfig.se>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: packets with syn/fin vs pf_norm.c
Message-ID:  <42C85F17.4050202@ifconfig.se>
In-Reply-To: <17095.18308.135102.939517@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
References:  <42C70FED.8080003@hackunite.net> <17095.18308.135102.939517@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>

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Garrett Wollman wrote:

><<On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:06:37 +0200, Jesper Wallin <jesper@www.hackunite.net> said:
>
>  
>
>>First of all, I know that not dropping SYN/FIN isn't really a big deal, it
>>just makes no sense. But since it doesn't make any sense, I don't see
>>the reason why not to discard them.
>>    
>>
>
>Perhaps because you are under the erroneous impression that such
>packets are nonsensical.
>
>-GAWollman
>
That might be the case yeah.. Yet, if I have TCP_DROP_SYNFIN in my 
kernel and
sysctrl net.inet.tcp.drop_synfin set to 1, shouldn't it drop all SYN/FIN 
packets no
matter how my firewall is configured?

Best regards,
Jesper Wallin



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