Re: Re: [Sigtran] SCTP: Heartbeat ack recieved without sending Heartbeat

Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:

> 
> I remember the behaviour as discarding the HB-ACK, but also permitting an
> ABORT to be sent.  But, wherever ABORT may be sent, it may also be suppressed
> according to the new RFC 4460 rfc2960bis.  Also, because of attack scenarios,
> ABORT should be avoided when the peer is suspected of fiddling around with
> seomthing.  I always prefer to give such hackers "dead air".
> 

I agree.. "dead air" is best here...

R


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