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Re: [PLUG] Comcast spoofs on network to block P2P
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On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 08:30:11PM -0400, zuzu wrote:
> is this fraud? identity theft?
>
> isn't this how China operates its national firewall? (spoofed RST packets)
Dood, every firewall in existence has this ability and its employed on a
regular basis. (*) I don't like what Comcast is doing any more than anyone
else but the technique is legit. Complain about the use, not the tool.
(*) E.g. when you tell iptables to REJECT something, it hand-crafts an RST
to return to the source. If you run a firewall on Linux, you almost
certainly have a REJECT rule in there somewhere.
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Toby DiPasquale
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