OT: More Spam

bscott at ntisys.com bscott at ntisys.com
Wed Jan 22 09:24:04 EST 2003


On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, at 9:15am, bobbell at zk3.dec.com wrote:
>> You can't really spoof the source IP address of a TCP connection.  
>> (Well, you can, but the TCP handshake will never complete, making it
>> rather useless.)
> 
> Sure you can, if you can guess the initial sequence number for the TCP
> connection.

  Oh, yes, right.  I keep assuming that broken software get fixed.  You'd
think I'd learn.  :-(

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