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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD TCP stack and RST processing [subj changed] 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Oct 1997 16:54:42 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 17:54:24 -0700
From: Paul Traina <pst@juniper.net>
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I put it in there for a reason, Steven's III showed a case where you could
pummel the box with a barage of, I believe, syn ack's and basicly melt things.
Sorry my memory is so foggy on the issue now.  I'll go back and try to remember.

  From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
  Subject: Re: FreeBSD TCP stack and RST processing [subj changed] 
  > It's been so long since I touched this that I won't offer an opinion.
  > The original idea was ripped from Stevens by vjs and then from me, if
  > memory serves me.
  
  Well, since it certainly seems to cause deviation from expected
  behavior and none of the other *BSDs have picked it up, shall we
  simply rip it out?
  
  					Jordan