Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Oct 1998 15:43:11 +0200 | From | Erik Corry <> | Subject | Re: Dynamic IP hack (PR#294) |
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On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 03:12:21PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >Erik: >>Alan: >>>Erik: >>>>Alan: >>>>>Erik: >>>>>> Note that the RST-provoking hack has the advantage that if >>>>>> you are lucky and get your old address back (or if you do >>>>>> so half the time, or 99% of the time) things 'just work'. >>>>> >>>>> And if you cycle through the new address back to the old in under 120 >>>>> seconds you violate the time wait requirements of the tcp protocol >>>> >>>> There's no solution here that doesn't violate protocol >>>> requirements. If someone presses the big red button and >>>> we reboot in under 120s we also violate the time wait >>>> requirements of the TCP protocol. >>> >>> And the only person we might screw up is ourselves in that case. >> >> Who else do we screw up in the other case? > > Whoever got our old address
How?
-- Erik Corry erik@arbat.com Ceterum censeo, Microsoftem esse delendam!
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