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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:15:31 -0700 From: Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@...ooh.org> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> CC: christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be, eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...uxace.com, benjamin.hesmans@...ouvain.be Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] Account for duplicate ACKs with invalid SACK-blocks On 2013-08-21 20:32, David Miller wrote: > From: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be> > Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:29:26 +0200 > >> There exist sequence-number rewriting middleboxes, who do not modify the >> sequence-number in the SACK-blocks. > > These are bugs that the vendor's should fix, not something we should > cater to at all. > > I'm not applying patches like these, and I've rejected similar > workarounds in the past 18 years, so this position is strong and > consistent. > > Sorry. That's not terrible for me; we'll most likely be turning off SEQ randomization on the FWSM, when we have time to make sure it doesn't break anything (which it shouldn't). -Corey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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