Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Sep 2000 12:30:36 +0200 | From | "Andi Kleen" <> | Subject | Re: ECN & cisco firewall |
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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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