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Date:      Thu, 7 Jun 2012 18:30:53 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Nikolay Denev <ndenev@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE sending FIN no ACK packets.
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On 7 June 2012 05:41, Nikolay Denev <ndenev@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been pointed out by our partner that we are sending TCP packets with FIN flag and no ACK set, which is triggering
> alerts on their firewalls.
> I've investigated, and it appears that some of our FreeBSD hosts are really sending such packets. (they are running some java applications)
> I did "tcpdump -s0 -vni em1 '(tcp[tcpflags] & tcp-ack == 0) && (tcp[tcpflags] & tcp-fin != 0)'" to catch them.
>
> Is this considered normal?
> It seems at least Juniper considers this malicious traffic : http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos-security/junos-security10.0/junos-security-swconfig-security/id-72577.html

Would you please file a PR with this, so it doesn't get lost?

Thanks,


Adrian



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