On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:51:40 -0400 Marcus Watts <[email protected]> wrote:
> "J.C. Roberts" <[email protected]> writes: > ... > > I know SYN+FIN is a valid packet according to RFC 793 and 1644 > > (T/TCP), but the more important question is, "what are the valuable > > *uses* for SYN+FIN packets?" > > > > Personally, I can't think of any valuable uses. Can you? > ... > > There is a use actually. If you want to do "minimal packet count > transactions", then you want this. Here's a better description, > http://www.sean.de/Solaris/ttcp.html > I don't know of anything that requires this, or even makes it possible > to do this in a rational way. > > A "smart" tcp based rpc mechanism, or perhaps sort of "odd" > http application (embedded controllers on slow network segments?) > might be candidates for this kind of logic. > > -Marcus Watts Great Find! --I'll give it a full read later. Thank You. -- J.C. Roberts
