From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.COM>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.16 through 2.2.18preX TCP hang bug triggered by rsync
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 03:32:44 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14960.3804.197814.496909@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010124215634.A2992@gruyere.muc.suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <3A6E02E6.B3261E1@colorfullife.com> <200101242003.XAA21040@ms2.inr.ac.ru> <20010124215634.A2992@gruyere.muc.suse.de>
Andi Kleen writes:
> It's mostly for security to make it more difficult to nuke connections
> without knowing the sequence number.
>
> Remember RFC is from a very different internet with much less DoS attacks.
Andi, one of the worst DoSs in the world is not being able to
communicate with half of the systems out there.
BSD and Solaris both make these kinds of packets, therefore it is must
to handle them properly. So we will fix Linux, there is no argument.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-25 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-23 22:17 Manfred Spraul
2001-01-23 22:59 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-24 20:03 ` kuznet
2001-01-24 20:34 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-24 20:42 ` kuznet
2001-01-25 18:35 ` kuznet
2001-01-24 20:56 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-25 10:58 ` Matthias Andree
2001-01-25 12:17 ` James Sutherland
2001-01-25 12:27 ` Matthias Andree
2001-01-25 11:32 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-01-25 11:40 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-25 11:44 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-25 11:56 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-25 12:25 ` James Sutherland
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-26 20:56 Dave Dykstra
2001-01-27 18:27 ` kuznet
2001-01-25 12:24 Studierende der Universitaet des Saarlandes
2001-01-25 12:34 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-23 20:42 Dave Dykstra
2001-01-23 22:51 ` Dave Dykstra
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