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Subject: Re: Excellent host SYN-attack fix for BSD hosts (fwd)
To: shaver@neon.ingenia.ca (Mike Shaver)
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 12:31:14 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199610141726.NAA20351@neon.ingenia.com> from "Mike Shaver" at Oct 14, 96 01:26:23 pm
From: dvv@sprint.net (Dima Volodin)
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Mike Shaver writes:
> 
> Thus spake Michael Dillon:
> > window size
> > and any initial data is discarded;
> 
> This, of course, breaks the TCP specification, in case anyone still
> cares about that.  (Few do, I fear.)

It would only cause a timeout and retransmission of the lost segmetn, no?

> (I seem to recall someone saying that it made it impossible to talk to
> any machine that did T/TCP, as well.)
> 
> Mike

Dima