Amazing. For months I've been asking that question about how to stop Netscape
from bringing up the link on program exit and then suddenly I get two answers in
the space of 24 hours...
Dmitry Pogosyan wrote:
> I have somethig like
> ignore tcp.fin
>
> in my standard.filter which eliminates the bringing connection up
> when you press exit button on Netscape.
> (don't remember exact syntax being far from my home computer)
> Of course, this should be one of the first rules in standard.filter,
> before 'accepts'
Well that's a lot simpler than this admittedly ingenious solution:
Giuilio Orsero
> Probably they are ACK or RST packets, you can see that from the log.
> If this is the case you can block reconnecting by inserting rules as:
>
> keepup tcp 180 tcp.ack,tcp.source=tcp.www
> keepup tcp 180 tcp.ack,tcp.dest=tcp.www
> keepup tcp 90 tcp.ack,tcp.source=tcp.ftp-data
> keepup tcp 90 tcp.ack,tcp.dest=tcp.ftp-data
> keepup tcp 90 tcp.ack,tcp.source=tcp.ftp
> keepup tcp 90 tcp.ack,tcp.dest=tcp.ftp
> keepup tcp 20 tcp.ack
> ignore tcp tcp.ack
>
> Before the accepting rules.
>
> So ACK packets will keep the link up, but not bring it up.
>
> The reason is that when you shut down a client that had not completely closed
> the connection, it tries to do it at that moment by sending some packets over
> the network.
>
I'm indebted to both of you uber-geeks. And I apologise for ranting on about the
guys at Netscape. I'm afraid I've had a very difficult week trying to
troubleshoot the bugs in my new SuSE 6.1 installation, and very little sleep
over that period as a result.
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