[NETFILTER]: tcp_conntrack: accept RST|PSH as valid

Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo at netfilter.org
Sun Mar 11 18:43:07 CET 2007


Bonjour Willy,

Willy Tarreau wrote:
> This combination has been encountered on an IBM AS/400 in response
> to packets sent to a closed session. There is no particular reason
> to mark it invalid.

I wonder if it is time to document this stuff. Would an interface to
configurate valid TCP flags settings from userspace be too much? Of
course, we would have a default configuration setup for them.

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