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 05:58:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 05:58:41 -0500 Received: from p3EE3C7D3.dip.t-dialin.net ([62.227.199.211]:13572 "HELO emma1.emma.line.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 05:58:36 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:58:28 +0100 From: Matthias Andree To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.16 through 2.2.18preX TCP hang bug triggered by rsync Message-ID: <20010125115827.A1483@emma1.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3A6E02E6.B3261E1@colorfullife.com> <200101242003.XAA21040@ms2.inr.ac.ru> <20010124215634.A2992@gruyere.muc.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010124215634.A2992@gruyere.muc.suse.de>; from ak@suse.de on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 21:56:34 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: > 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. If you're deliberately breaking compatibility by violating the specs, you're making your own DoS if your machines can't chat to each other. If you insist on breaking the RFC, make a sysctl for this behaviour that defaults to "off". -- Matthias Andree - 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/