What factors does PAWS (Protection Against Sequence Wrapping) use to determine if it should drop a packet?

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Issue

  • What factors does PAWS (Protection Against Sequence Wrapping) use to determine if it should drop a packet?
  • To what extent can these factors be modified?
  • How does PAWS interact with offices/campuses using the same NAT'd IP?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
  • TCP connections with TCP Sequence Numbers enabled

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