Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 12:31:14 -0400 (EDT) From: dvv@sprint.net (Dima Volodin) To: shaver@neon.ingenia.ca (Mike Shaver) Cc: michael@memra.com, firewalls@GreatCircle.COM, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, server-linux@netspace.org Subject: Re: Excellent host SYN-attack fix for BSD hosts (fwd) Message-ID: <199610161631.MAA23126@mercury.int.sprintlink.net> In-Reply-To: <199610141726.NAA20351@neon.ingenia.com> from "Mike Shaver" at Oct 14, 96 01:26:23 pm
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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
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