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Date:      Fri, 21 Mar 2003 04:02:53 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        John Fitzgibbon <fitz@jfitz.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Repeated ACKs - possible DoS?
Message-ID:  <20030321020253.GA3174@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <200303201715.32293.fitz@jfitz.com>
References:  <200303201408.53238.fitz@jfitz.com> <20030321004312.GA1964@gothmog.gr> <200303201715.32293.fitz@jfitz.com>

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On 2003-03-20 17:15, John Fitzgibbon <fitz@jfitz.com> wrote:
>On Thursday 20 March 2003 04:43 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>> X is remote. Y is server, (FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE, built 2003/01/06)
>>>
>>> tcpdump shows 2 remote connections repeatedly sending "ack 1":
>>>
>>> 09:16:10.236812 X.64670 > Y.http: . ack 1 win 32589
>>> 09:16:10.236879 Y.http > X.64670: . ack 489 win 58400 (DF)
>>
>> Hmmm, is this repeatable?  Can you try to grab the output of the
>> following command in a log file while it happens?
>>
>> 	# tcpdump -n -v -s 128 -XX port 80
>
> I haven't seen this behavior before, and I don't know how to recreate it :(

Damn :(

If this is a bug that you've hit upon, please note that command and
run it if it ever happens to appear again.  The log file is going to
be large, but I'll help a lot to have it around when trying to find
out what happens.

- Giorgos


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