Re: Crafted SYN Packets...

[Simon Smith <simon () snosoft com>]

Kelly,
        SYN packets and ports do not correlate. And yes, SYN is TCP. You should
read up on TCP/IP etc so that you understand protocols before posting to
mailing lists.

Kelly Robinson wrote:
> Looking at some suspicious behaviour in our logs...
>  
> If someone sends a packet with the SYN bit set to a host, typically what
> is the client's source port? Or is that crafted too?
>  
> And additionally, when a client does sent a packet of this type, am I
> right in assuming its generally TCP only? Can you have a UDP SYN packet?
> I assume because its connectionless, no???
>
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