Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:40:36 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.16 through 2.2.18preX TCP hang bug triggered by rsync |
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:32:44AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > Andi Kleen writes: > > It's mostly for security to make it more difficult to nuke connections > > without knowing the sequence number. > > > > Remember RFC is from a very different internet with much less DoS attacks. > > Andi, one of the worst DoSs in the world is not being able to > communicate with half of the systems out there.
If it was that serious then there would be surely more reports ;)
> > BSD and Solaris both make these kinds of packets, therefore it is must > to handle them properly. So we will fix Linux, there is no argument.
How do you propose to handle them? Queue the data anyways or just process the ACK?
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