On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > The recent discussions and Oskar Andreassons work on a iptables > tutorial made me take a closer look into the TCP tracking states, and > I notices a couple of odd things that looks like they may be bugs.. > > 1. What is the use of LAST_ACK? From what I can tell this state can > only be reached if the connection is already in the LAST_ACK state.. > > 2. The support for half-closed connections is very poor, and differs a > lot depending on which side closed first.
[...] Yes, those are inconsystencies. Could you have a look at the tcp_window_tracking patch? I spent a couple of time on refining the state transitions in that patch, still there might be room to improve them... Regards, Jozsef - E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW-Home: http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary
