Send SYN ACK from server ?

[Michael Gale <michael.gale@pason.com>]

Hello,

    I am seeing a problem where when a linux box from behind a linux 
firewall connects to an external server, the external server is sending 
a second SYN,ACK message:

-> SYN sent
<- SYN,ACK received -- WINDOWS SIZE SET TO 0 ??
-> ACK sent

Then the external server sends:
<-SYN, ACK with same seq numbers ?? and WINDOW SIZE SET TO 16560 ??

Now if the client is windows :( it replies to the second SYN,ACK and 
everything seems to work, however when the client is linux, the second 
SYN,ACK is ignored by the client which I believe causes the connection 
state to be destroyed on the firewall.

Am I corrent is assuming that the window size update packet should NOT 
have the SYN bit set and that this is a problem on the remote server ?

Michael

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Michael Gale

Linux Administrator
Network Administrator
Pason Systems Corp.