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RST (TCP-RST) is a flag in the TCP header. It indicates that the sender terminates the session. When the ACK flag isn't set contemporaneous, the termination happens due to an error.

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Is my TCP connections sabotaged by my country's government?

I am suspicious that my country's government is destroying the received ACK packet on TCP connections, somehow. When I try to establish a TCP connection to an outside host on ports other than 80 the TCP handshake will not be successful. I captured…
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Why isn't net.ipv4.tcp_rfc1337 enabled by default?

The tcp_rfc1337 setting seems to have a solution for TIME-WAIT Assassination. The first problem is that old duplicate data may be accepted erroneously in new connections, leading to the sent data becoming corrupt. The second problem is that…
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TCP RST right after FIN/ACK

I am having the weirdest issue: a web server which sometimes, only on very specific requests, will send a RST to the client after having sent the FIN datagram. First, a description of the setup: Server: VM guest Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS in a Win7 x64…
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Intel IMSM firmware with added PCIe Controller

I currently have a RAID 10 (6x 2TB) running in an Intel IMSM container ("fakeraid", firmware RAID) on Ubuntu 16.04 on an ASUS H170M-PLUS (Intel H170 chipset). I'm using all 6 SATA ports on the MOBO and want to add a PCIe JBOD controller and add the…
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Is SYN flooding still a threat?

Well recently I've been reading about different Denial of Service methods. One method that kind of stuck out was SYN flooding. I'm a member of some not-so-nice forums, and someone was selling a python script that would DoS a server using SYN packets…
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HTTPS from web server in China is blocked by RST TCP packets (Great Firewall?)

I'm hoping someone can provide some insight to a weird issue we're having as of 3 February 2019. TL;DR HTTPS sites on an IIS server in China are returning TCP RST packets after the initial TLS handshake. The sites are showing "connection reset"…
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Wireshark trace file RST after FIN packet

I have a client and Application server, that exchange certificates with each other and establishes a secure TLS connection. At the end of such connection, after application data is transferred. The client sends a FIN packet to the server, in return…
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RST ACK after SYN and Retransmission

I'm very new with network, so forgive me if I ask dumb questions or if my vocabulary is bad I'm trying to access an URL from a partner on a specific port. The server has a firewall which only accepts allowed IP address The problem is that sometimes…
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Linux iptables - reject tcp SYN with RST

I am doing an implementation on a linux machine to reject incoming telnet requests from wan side telnet port 8023. The functionality is achieved by using the below iptables rules. The first rule in NAT prerouting chain to DNAT incoming tcp frames…
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Why server send RST packet to client after graceful close?

I 'm testing server stress test. server OS and client OS is CentOS6.4. client try to 3000 connect, one connection send a one http request, by load test tool, weighttp. but, client get error. this error is connection reset by peer. I captured…
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What happens if a server never receives the RST packet?

Someone recently decided to show me a POC of a new Denial of Service method using SYN/TCP he's figured out. I thought it was complete nonsense, but after explaining to him about SYN-SYN/ACK-RST, he left me speechless. He told me "what if the server…
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Massive RST packets being sent

I've been fighting off a weird issue we've been having in our internal network: from time to time, multiple applications that we use simply freeze: SQL Management Studio, Red-Gate's Data Compare, Citrix GOTOMeeting and so forth. I decided to get a…
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IIS 7.5 - SSL Fails After Reboot - Rebind Cert fixes until reboot

Recently, my IIS 7.5 SSL site started refusing connections after a reboot. Oddly, the issue can be workaround by binding the site with a different cert and the switching back to the correct one. When failing, wireshark shows the client send various…
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Forged TCP reset packets

I am trying to better understand the net neutrality debate. Some have accused ISPs of sending RST packets to end hosts in order to block BitTorrent traffic. What exactly does this mean? I have a basic understanding of HTTP and TCP/IP (I'm a…
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WYSIWYG Trac editor with reStructuredText

We're using trac, and using it's inbuilt reStructured Text throughout our wiki, since we process our trac wiki pages with another programme and convert them to another format. RST is a more widely available format. We'd like to have a WYSIWYG editor…
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