From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: tcp vulnerability?  haven't seen anything on it here...
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:42:51 -0400
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alex@pilosoft.com wrote:

> Nevertheless, number of packets to kill the session is still *large* 
> (under "best-case" for attacker, you need to send 2^30 packets)...

I though the whole point of this vulnerability was that you "only" needed to send 64K packets, not 2^30.

Chris