Responding to RST

Responding to RST

Posted Apr 23, 2004 14:54 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: TCP vulnerability: cancel red alert by junkio
Parent article: TCP vulnerability: cancel red alert

"Anyone who recommends responding to a RST packet, does not understand TCP very well."

I agree, so I don't understand why the IETF and Cisco people are pushing this "fix". Why do the Linux (and OpenBSD) people see this as a bad idea but not the Cisco people?

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