From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: Fw: Re: [PATCH] ipv4 tcp autobind problem Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 05:37:57 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030930053757.36965bf3.davem@redhat.com> References: <20030930024320.5aca8ddc.davem@redhat.com> <200309301237.QAA01426@yakov.inr.ac.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jmorris@redhat.com, hidden@balabit.hu, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu Return-path: To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru In-Reply-To: <200309301237.QAA01426@yakov.inr.ac.ru> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:37:48 +0400 (MSD) kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: > From this mail I still do not see why autobinding of void socket is so > bad thing, that it requires marginal fixing at the place which is already > marginal. What is the real problem? I think it is some detail about their transparent proxy kernel hacks, remember that awful stuff? :)