Re: Does SCTP help against TCP reset attacks?

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Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
   I don't know how you do it, i never managed a(n exposed) server
   until January and now [.] i think what i have to face are TCP
   RST attacks on SSH connections, leading to "connection reset"s
   ["connection closed" on client side in fact] (of course).
Are you sure that's the case? For RST attack, it would need to guess
the right TCP sequence numbers.
It seems more likely that the connection is timing out (maybe there's
some firewall enforcing it?) and thus the other side considers it to be
closed.

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