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Date:      Fri, 21 Mar 2003 02:43:12 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        John Fitzgibbon <fitz@jfitz.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Repeated ACKs - possible DoS?
Message-ID:  <20030321004312.GA1964@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <200303201408.53238.fitz@jfitz.com>
References:  <200303201408.53238.fitz@jfitz.com>

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On 2003-03-20 14:08, John Fitzgibbon <fitz@jfitz.com> wrote:
> Notes:
> X is the remote machine.
> Y is my server, (FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE, built 2003/01/06)
>
> tcpdump showing 2 remote connections repeatedly sending "ack 1":
>
> 09:16:10.236812 X.64670 > Y.http: . ack 1 win 32589
> 09:16:10.236879 Y.http > X.64670: . ack 489 win 58400 (DF)
> 09:16:10.242978 X.64670 > Y.http: . ack 1 win 32589
> 09:16:10.243037 Y.http > X.64670: . ack 489 win 58400 (DF)
> 09:16:10.248883 X.64677 > Y.http: . ack 1 win 32767
> 09:16:10.248946 Y.http > X.64677: . ack 25 win 58400 (DF)
> 09:16:10.255044 X.64670 > Y.http: . ack 1 win 32589
> 09:16:10.255123 Y.http > X.64670: . ack 489 win 58400 (DF)
> 09:16:10.262925 X.64677 > Y.http: . ack 1 win 32767
> 09:16:10.262989 Y.http > X.64677: . ack 25 win 58400 (DF)
> 09:16:10.268842 X.64670 > Y.http: . ack 1 win 32589
> 09:16:10.268905 Y.http > X.64670: . ack 489 win 58400 (DF)
> 09:16:10.275241 X.64670 > Y.http: . ack 1 win 32589
> 09:16:10.275303 Y.http > X.64670: . ack 489 win 58400 (DF)

Hmmm, is this repeatable?  Can you try to grab the output of the
following command in a log file while it happens?

	# tcpdump -n -v -s 128 -XX port 80

- Giorgos


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