Re: Solaris OOW issue?

Eric Behr <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.ipfilter
Message-ID <24908_1241816098_4A049C22_24908_5929_1_20090508205415.GB3174@muir.math.niu.edu>
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 01:25:00PM -0700, Darren Reed wrote:
> 
> If it reliably happens with a given port number (or pair), can I ask that
> you use tcpdump to capture all of the packets for this and email me the
> tcpdump capture file?
> 
> What I'm suspecting is that a TCP connection is being reused and maybe
> ipfilter doesn't handle that well. ucdavis...Chico?

That's precisely what I saw, with the NCP protocol (a PC with a
new version of the Novell client trying to access Samba shares on
Solaris). It was reusing port numbers, before ipf could purge the
existing state entry.

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