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Date:      Mon, 14 Oct 1996 13:26:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mike Shaver <shaver@neon.ingenia.ca>
To:        michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon)
Cc:        firewalls@GreatCircle.COM, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, server-linux@netspace.org
Subject:   Re: Excellent host SYN-attack fix for BSD hosts (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199610141726.NAA20351@neon.ingenia.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.961011094343.20976X-100000@sidhe.memra.com> from "Michael Dillon" at Oct 11, 96 09:44:18 am

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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.)

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

Mike

-- 
#> Mike Shaver (shaver@ingenia.com) Ingenia Communications Corporation 
#>       Chief System Architect -- Head geek -- System exorcist        
#>                                                                     
#>   "Have you considered a life?  I hear they're quite affordable     
#>          these days." --- shields@tembel.org                        



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