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From: Anders Fugmann <afu@fugmann.dhs.org>
To: Cedric Blancher <blancher@cartel-securite.fr>
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: NEW vs INVALID
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:05:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D996546.3070408@fugmann.dhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1033462154.878.17.camel@elendil

Cedric Blancher wrote:
> By the way, I was wondering why --syn was "only" equivalent to :
> 	--tcp-flags SYN,ACK,RST SYN
> 
> And not to :
> 	--tcp-flags SYN,ACK,RST,FIN SYN
> 
The tcp-flags would then not match packets with the SYN & FIN bits set, 
which is actually connection request, with should be closed immdiatly 
after opening. The syn-fin is widly used to scan hosts, and should be 
dropped. But still - it is a connection request and should therfore be 
caught by --syn.

Regards
Anders Fugmann

-- 
Neo: 'Can you fly that thing?'
Trinity: 'Not yet'.
$ apt-get install pilot-prg-v212helicopter.



  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-01  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-30 10:18 NEW vs INVALID Jens Lechtenbörger
2002-09-30 14:39 ` Anders Fugmann
2002-10-01  8:49   ` Cedric Blancher
2002-10-01  9:05     ` Anders Fugmann [this message]
2002-10-01 11:19       ` Cedric Blancher
2002-09-30 15:26 ` Cedric Blancher
2002-09-30 15:50   ` Jens Lechtenbörger
2002-10-01 10:33     ` Martijn Klingens

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