[CentOS] Socket behavior change from 6.5 to 6.6
Gordon Messmer
gordon.messmer at gmail.com
Wed Jan 21 18:14:51 UTC 2015
On 01/21/2015 09:38 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> If you can change the client, and you want to keep essentially
> re-using the same socket after a reboot
Not the same socket, but the same client port number.
> , can't you simply send a RST
> on it when starting up
I don't think so. That would also be a packet injection attack, and I'm
mostly certain the application would need to use a sequence number that
matched up with the open socket.
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