Newbie: Keep TCP socket open

[Alan Wright]

Ghirai,
Scapy does the same, only it sends RST and not FIN, so still no help

 send(IP(dst="10.1.1.2")/TCP(dport=50000,flags="S"))

Only have windows at the moment sadly.

Alan

"Ghirai" <ghirai at ghirai.com> wrote in message 
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> On Mon, 19 May 2008 20:25:57 +0100
> "Alan Wright" <alan.wright at volubill.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the feedback.
>>
>> Using the socket in a list is great
>>
>> However, as i imagined, I now get a limit of around 1500 conns before
>> the system crashes out, also i have noticed, that the ports loop back
>> to 1025 when they hit 5000.
>>
>> Any ideas on how to make the list/socket get to around 50K
>>
>> TIA
>>
>
> Try to use scapy to send raw empty packets with S flag set.
> Also use Linux/BSD if you're trying this on Windows.
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Ghirai.