Re: treason uncloaked!
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 03:22 pm, martin f krafft wrote:
> just found this message in my kernel logs. can anyone decipher it for
> me? what's treason wrt the TCP/IP stack?
>
> kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 140.198.4.56:1511/80 shrinks
> window 1904581317:1904582069. Repaired.
>
according to various googled archives, the connection at the other end
attempts to reset the window size after the link has been established. that
attempt is apparently a tcp protocol violation. judging by the amount and
content of search results, it's fairly common, and doesn't mean that any
actual harm is being done.
ben
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