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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 02:55:08 -0800
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP: Treason uncloaked DoS ??
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:27:25AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:

> Well I have the same every night when my backup on the local host is
> running. Many of the "kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer
> 192.168.17.2:2988/33016 shrinks window 3035402428:3035418812. Repaired."

> But 192.168.17.2 is the same host! So the buggy TCP stack seams to
> be in linux kernel.

My guess is there is a PacketShaper in between mangling things.


  --cw