Re: tcp vulnerability? haven't seen anything on it here...

From: Florian Weimer
Date: Fri Apr 23 2004 - 08:57:00 EST


jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> OTOH, long lived BGP sessions are affected assuming you are going across
> hostile path to your peer.

Jamal, please forget that "hostile path to your peer" part. It's just
wrong.

You are entitled to your opinion that this isssue is being overhyped
(I tend to share it, at least until some evidence shows up that
there's also a 4.4BSD-like RST bug), but please try to understand the
issue before making any judgement.

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