Re: the next generation of nuke.c

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> More of a denial of service attack, but with the current discussion
> on bugtraq/firewalls regarding sequence number guessing, I thought
> I'd put forward a method on killing an established TCP connection,
> [...send FIN/ACK packets...]

Why not just fire off a few RST segments?  If you see a segment fly by,
it's really easy to synthesize an RST segment to blow away whichever
end of the connection you please; all you have to do is make the
sequence number correct.  (This is easiest when you want to RST the end
that sent the segment you eavesdropped on.)

					der Mouse

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