Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264631AbUDVSj3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:39:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264632AbUDVSj3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:39:29 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:48106 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264631AbUDVSj0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:39:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:28:01 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: root@chaos.analogic.com Cc: pochini@shiny.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com, joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de Subject: Re: tcp vulnerability? haven't seen anything on it here... Message-Id: <20040422112801.2a1a4a57.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 665 Lines: 20 On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:35:54 -0400 (EDT) "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > Has anybody checked to see what Linux does if it receives a > RST to the broadcast address? It would be a shame if all > connections were dropped! int tcp_v4_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb) { ... if (skb->pkt_type != PACKET_HOST) goto discard_it; Packets which are multicast or broadcast do not get marked as "PACKET_HOST". - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/