On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:46:07AM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:51:40 -0400 Marcus Watts <m...@umich.edu> wrote: > > > "J.C. Roberts" <list-...@designtools.org> 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. >
We don't support TTCP and we will never support it. The thing is just scary and easily attackable. On the other hand I wonder what stupid thing the security scanners will check next. -- :wq Claudio
