Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:17:04 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: tcp vulnerability? haven't seen anything on it here... |
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 07:35:54AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Has anybody checked to see what Linux does if it receives a > RST to the broadcast address? It would be a shame if all > connections were dropped!
I don't see how this would be possible : a TCP packet is matched *only* if it refers to a valid session. If you have no session established from/to the broadcast address, there's no possibility that an RST targetted at this address terminates anything, even if the ports are OK.
Cheers, Willy
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