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SubjectRe: ECN & cisco firewall
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:56:59AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> That's a really anal, zero purpose, check to put into a firewall.
> I don't know of even any embedded printer stacks that puke when
> the reserved flag bits are non-zero. The only things this protects
> anyone from are extensions such as ECN :-)

To be fair even older netfilter had the same problem (ipt_unclean would
complain about the reserved bits). It is probably a common bug.


-Andi

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