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Date:      Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:46:30 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Richard Steenbergen <ras@above.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: stream.c 
Message-ID:  <200001240346.UAA48819@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:23:06 MST." <388BC59A.1AD012C5@softweyr.com> 
References:  <388BC59A.1AD012C5@softweyr.com>  <20000123102829.C18349@above.net> <20000123083234.N26520@fw.wintelcom.net> 

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In message <388BC59A.1AD012C5@softweyr.com> Wes Peters writes:
: You're fixing the wrong problem.  The problem stems from injecting multicast
: RST packets, which generate multicast replies on all attached interfaces.
: The real solution seems to be to reject the invalid multicast TCP packets
: without generating a reply, since they cannot possibly be valid packets.

That's one of the two parts of the patch that I'm working on.

Warner


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