netdev - Re: Treason uncloaked / Broken peer again

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Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:58:26 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Greg Lindahl <greg@...kko.com>
Cc:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Treason uncloaked / Broken peer again

Greg Lindahl <greg@...kko.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm continuing to get hate mail from all over the planet. Can anyone
> recommend a webpage which I could point to that explains how harmless
> this message can be? Google returns lots of scary warnings. I would
> write one myself but the complainers are already dubious of me.
> 
> It seems that most complainers are running < 2.6.14, which had a
> header prediction bug.

Right, most of these instances are due to buggy receivers.  I
suppose you can just point them to this or one of the previous
threads and tell them to upgrade :)

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