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Re: [tcpm] PoC for draft-moncaster-tcpm-rcv-cheat-02

David Malone <David.Malone@nuim.ie> Wed, 26 March 2008 20:23 UTC

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From: David Malone <David.Malone@nuim.ie>
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Subject: Re: [tcpm] PoC for draft-moncaster-tcpm-rcv-cheat-02
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> So I suggest as a defense, if you receive an ack of
> the future, to halve the congestion window.

In the demo at:

	http://www.hamilton.ie/gavinmc/drop_dupack_attack/

Gavin only acked packets that were sent - there is no need to ack
into the future.

	David.
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