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Is there a way to disable TCP state management of OS, for example on a specific port, or on another ip or if not, disabling the whole tcp management and managing it in an application with root access?

I need a linux/mac based solution but windows-based solutions can also help.

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I want to make a special proxy, a send relay actually, which manipulates the packet before delivering it to the destination in a way that the original sender gets the answer directly. Sending is easy but the OS of the final receiver rejects the packet and terminates the semi-connection.

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You can do this. It's frequently done for satellite communications links to spoof the ACK before the SYN has actually received the packet. –  Tom O'Connor Feb 23 '12 at 13:45
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I can't tell which of these you are trying to accomplish:

You want to intercept traffic before it gets handed to the application that owns the socket?

Add relevant rules to the firewall tables sending the packet to a ULOG target and handle it in your userspace code that way. Look at the iptables manpage and search for ULOG for details.

You want to send crafted packets out on the network hand-crafting parameters such as source MAC/IP/whatever?

You need root permissions to do this and you can do so using a raw socket. Python's scapy is an easy way of doing so.

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The RST packets were my problem. I used this command: sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -s MYIP -p tcp --sport MYPORT -j DROP –  Reza Mohammadi Feb 23 '12 at 15:01
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