I use raw socket to create TCP packets, with focus on the sequence number and TCP flags(SYN, ACK)
I used one machine S to send a tcp ACK packet (flag ACK is set to 1) and another machine R to receive it these two machines are in different subnets, all in my school
meanwhile, I used tcpdump to capture the packets.
Strange things happens! On machine S, the captured packet is as expected, it is an ACK packet however, on the receiving machine R, the packet becomes a SYN packet, and the sequence number is changed, the seq no is 1 smaller the expected and the ack_seq become 0!
what is wrong with this? my guess is that the router/firewall modified the ACK packet to a SYN packet because it never sees a SYN SYN/ACK exchange ahead of the ACK? is it possible or not?
the two captured packets are:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B09y_TWqTtwlVnpuUlNwUmM1YUE/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B09y_TWqTtwlTXhjUms4ZnlkMVE/edit?usp=sharing