From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 06:33:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 06:33:48 -0500 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:7558 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 06:33:31 -0500 From: "David S. Miller" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14960.3804.197814.496909@pizda.ninka.net> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 03:32:44 -0800 (PST) To: Andi Kleen Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, Manfred Spraul , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.16 through 2.2.18preX TCP hang bug triggered by rsync 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 13) "Crater Lake" XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/