netdev - Re: [RFC 0/2] Account for duplicate ACKs with invalid SACK-blocks

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Date:	Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:32:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel@...uxace.com, bugfood-ml@...ooh.org,
	benjamin.hesmans@...ouvain.be
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] Account for duplicate ACKs with invalid SACK-blocks

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.
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