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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Alan J. Wylie" <alan.nospam@glaramara.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipt_unclean: TCP flags bad: 4
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:43:26 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m15ObJH-000CD5C@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Jul 2001 16:27:26 +0100." <15194.61662.338810.87576@glaramara.freeserve.co.uk>

In message <15194.61662.338810.87576@glaramara.freeserve.co.uk> you write:
> 
> I've just upgraded to 2.4.7, and I'm getting lots of errors:
> 
> ipt_unclean: TCP flags bad: 4

Please try this patch...

Note that this should be a warning to people not to reject packets
based on ipt_unclean, or we'll end up with another situation like the
ECN blackholes when the next Funky New Thing comes along...

Thanks,
Rusty.
--
Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK

diff -urN -I \$.*\$ -X /home/rusty/devel/kernel/kernel-patches/dontdiff --minimal linux-2.4.7-official/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_unclean.c working-2.4.7-unclean/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_unclean.c
--- linux-2.4.7-official/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_unclean.c	Sun Jul 22 13:13:27 2001
+++ working-2.4.7-unclean/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_unclean.c	Mon Jul 23 18:29:11 2001
@@ -331,6 +331,7 @@
 	tcpflags = ((u_int8_t *)tcph)[13];
 	if (tcpflags != TH_SYN
 	    && tcpflags != (TH_SYN|TH_ACK)
+	    && tcpflags != TH_RST
 	    && tcpflags != (TH_RST|TH_ACK)
 	    && tcpflags != (TH_RST|TH_ACK|TH_PUSH)
 	    && tcpflags != (TH_FIN|TH_ACK)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-23 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-22 15:27 ipt_unclean: TCP flags bad: 4 Alan J. Wylie
2001-07-22 17:51 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-07-22 18:10   ` Alan J. Wylie
2001-07-22 23:07     ` Luigi Genoni
2001-07-23  8:43 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2001-07-23 20:55   ` Alan J. Wylie

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