Why is our firewall (Ubuntu 8.04) rejecting the final packet (FIN, ACK, PSH) with a RST
Background, for a long time we have had problems with our firewall that sometimes keep HTTP requests hanging partially loaded until TCP times out. After tracing the traffic on the firewall I noticed that it occurs only during certain timing conditions, e.g when the webserver has sent the entire response before the client has sent … Read more