On Jan 9, 2014, at 4:22 PM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/09/2014 07:40 AM, Joerg Mayer wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 05:09:11PM -0800, Gerald Combs wrote: >>> On 1/7/14 4:19 PM, Joerg Mayer wrote: >>>> Right now TCP packets with RST are marked as severity chat. Is there a >>>> reason >>>> why this isn't warn? >>> >>> Some applications use RSTs as a way to quickly close connections. >>> Internet Explorer is probably the most common example. >> >> Just curious: How does an application do that (rst instead of proper >> fin-sequence)? Kill the process that opened the tcp socket? > > By calling close() instead of shutdown() on the socket fd. ... you need to enable the liger option with a timeout of 0. Calling close() will trigger the RST. If you call close on a socket with an empty receiver buffer, you trigger the FIN stuff. Best regards Michael > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> > Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe > ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
