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Date:      Sun, 12 Sep 1999 21:10:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, "Jeremy L. Ramirez" <jramirez@digicomsystems.net>, dev-null@ns1.digicomsystems.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to prevent motd including os info
Message-ID:  <199909130110.VAA27314@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <xzpiu5g13hg.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <4.2.0.58.19990911151659.00aa8d60@ns1.digicomsystems.net> <19990912012524.B41509@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <xzpn1usmka2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <199909121534.JAA18584@mt.sri.com> <xzpzoys15dn.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <xzpiu5g13hg.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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<<On 12 Sep 1999 18:47:23 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> said:

> +tcp_drop_synfin="NO"		# Set to YES to drop TCP packets with SYN+FIN
> +				# NOTE: this breaks rfc1644 extensions (T/TCP)

No, it breaks TCP, period, regardless of RFC 1644.  Christmas-tree
segments are perfectly valid in TCP (i.e., SYN URG PSH FIN).

-GAWollman

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