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Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not?
From: billn () pegasus billn net
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 16:40:57 -0700 (MST)
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
Advertising a window of 0 is a perfectly valid way of telling the other side that you are temporarily out of resoruces, and would like them to stop sending you data. This can be caused by any number of things, from a
This makes sense when taken in combination with our earlier assessment that it was coming from mobile devices, like PDAs or smart phones, limited on both CPU and optimized to save power. - billn
Current thread:
- TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not? Travis Hassloch (Sep 07)
- Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not? billn (Sep 07)
- Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not? Richard A Steenbergen (Sep 07)
- Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not? billn (Sep 07)
- Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not? Steven M. Bellovin (Sep 07)
- Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not? Jim Shankland (Sep 07)
- Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not? Richard A Steenbergen (Sep 07)
- Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not? Travis Hassloch (Sep 08)
- Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not? Jim Shankland (Sep 08)
- Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not? Richard A Steenbergen (Sep 07)
- Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not? billn (Sep 07)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not? billn (Sep 07)
- Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not? Christopher L. Morrow (Sep 07)
- Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not? David E. Smith (Sep 07)
- Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not? Robert E . Seastrom (Sep 08)
- Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not? Christopher L. Morrow (Sep 07)
- Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not? Fernando Gont (Sep 26)