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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: iptables STILL incorrectly using TCP packet contents without
 checking header!
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 20:34:14 +0200
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Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Jonas Berlin wrote:
> 
>> But what will be done in case REJECT notices it's not valid?
> 
> 
> In such case REJECT should silently DROP the packet without sending a 
> reject response.
> 
> Same as you see in a TCP/IP stack when receiving malformed TCP packets. 
> These are dropped as invalid, not generating TCP RST like most "odd but 
> not malformed" TCP packets do.

Agreed. I'll fix it up.

Regards
Patrick