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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf 2/2] netfilter: conntrack: re-init state for retransmitted syn-ack
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 21:28:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220129202811.GL25922@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8388b8bd-3c41-a8ec-c338-28be9491fa74@netfilter.org>

Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org> wrote:
> I can only assume that the client is/are behind like a carrier-grade NAT
> and the bogus SYN-ACK sent by the server is replying a connection attempt 
> from another client. Yes, the best thing to do is to reinit the state.

Yes, thats my guess as well, some sort of CGN or stateless nat hding
multiple clients.

Thanks for the quick review!

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-29 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-29 16:47 [PATCH nf 1/2] netfilter: conntrack: move synack init code to helper Florian Westphal
2022-01-29 16:47 ` [PATCH nf 2/2] netfilter: conntrack: re-init state for retransmitted syn-ack Florian Westphal
2022-01-29 20:25   ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2022-01-29 20:28     ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2022-02-04  4:42     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2022-01-29 20:18 ` [PATCH nf 1/2] netfilter: conntrack: move synack init code to helper Jozsef Kadlecsik
2022-02-04  4:42   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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