Re: [RFC 0/2] Account for duplicate ACKs with invalid SACK-blocks

Corey Hickey
2013-08-22T04:15:33Z

On 2013-08-21 20:32, David Miller wrote:
> From: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:29:26 +0200
>
>> There exist sequence-number rewriting middleboxes, who do not modify the
>> sequence-number in the SACK-blocks.
>
> These are bugs that the vendor's should fix, not something we should
> cater to at all.
>
> I'm not applying patches like these, and I've rejected similar
> workarounds in the past 18 years, so this position is strong and
> consistent.
>
> Sorry.

That's not terrible for me; we'll most likely be turning off SEQ
randomization on the FWSM, when we have time to make sure it doesn't
break anything (which it shouldn't).

-Corey