Re: 2.6.17: networking bug??

Rick Jones
2006-06-13T22:12:36Z

Mark

From everything I have read so far (which admittedly hasn't been
everything) it sounds like the firewall in question was a ticking
timebomb. If 2.6.17 hadn't set it off, something else might very well
have done so.

Or, if you prefer another metaphore, 2.6.17 was simply the last in a
series of straws on the back of the camel what was the firewall. Meta
issues of whether or not the camel that is firewalls should have ever
been allowed to poke its nose in the Internet Tent notwithstanding :)

At the very least, the firewall, if it is going to be "stateless," has
to strip the window scaling option from the SYN's that go past.
Otherwise, I would be inclined to agree with David that the firewall is
fundamentally broken.

rick jones