[2985] in bugtraq
Re: tcp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vern Paxson)
Tue Jul 23 17:33:25 1996
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 10:40:23 PDT
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From: Vern Paxson <vern@ee.lbl.gov>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 23 Jul 96 09:16:16 BST.
> What happends if you create a SYN packet which would initiate a tcp
> session, the first step in the handshake. Instead of only setting the
> SYN flag you also set the ACK flag.
You get a RST packet back, because the remote TCP doesn't have any state
for the connection presumed to exist by the presence of the ACK flag.
> Is it possible to create a connection state even with the ACK flag
> included??
No.
Vern
