From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com, akepner@sgi.com, dlstevens@us.ibm.com,
rick.jones2@hp.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] "strict" ipv4 reassembly
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 17:51:26 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050517.175126.74751342.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050518001054.GB27212@gondor.apana.org.au>
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] "strict" ipv4 reassembly
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 10:10:54 +1000
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 05:06:55PM -0700, Nivedita Singhvi wrote:
> >
> > Mainline linux certainly has this (per-inetpeer ip_id) - but
> > at least one distro did not (use inetpeer) :). Not sure
> > what the current situation is.
>
> What was the reason for this? Perhaps we can solve their problems
> with inetpeer in a better way than disabling it?
Andi Kleen thought inetpeer was a pig, so he removed it from SUSE's
kernel and replaced it with a per-cpu salted IP ID generator. The
initial verion he wrote had serious bugs that severely decreased the
effective ID space, and thus made the NFS corruption problem happen
more frequently.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-18 0:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-17 16:18 [RFC/PATCH] "strict" ipv4 reassembly Arthur Kepner
2005-05-17 17:49 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 18:28 ` Arthur Kepner
2005-05-17 18:48 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 20:21 ` Arthur Kepner
2005-05-17 18:38 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-17 18:45 ` Pekka Savola
2005-05-17 18:50 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 18:56 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 18:57 ` John Heffner
2005-05-17 19:09 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 19:21 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 19:26 ` Ben Greear
2005-05-17 20:48 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-17 19:17 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-17 19:56 ` David Stevens
2005-05-17 20:17 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-17 20:22 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 20:27 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-17 21:02 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 21:13 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-17 21:24 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 21:25 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 22:06 ` Arthur Kepner
2005-05-17 22:18 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 22:40 ` David Stevens
2005-05-17 23:11 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-17 23:20 ` Arthur Kepner
2005-05-17 23:25 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-17 23:55 ` David Stevens
2005-05-18 0:00 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 0:04 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-18 0:09 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 0:52 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-18 0:06 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-18 0:10 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 0:51 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-05-18 1:05 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-18 1:13 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 1:09 ` John Heffner
2005-05-17 23:53 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 22:12 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 22:23 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 20:29 ` John Heffner
2005-05-17 19:01 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-17 19:13 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 19:25 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-17 19:31 ` John Heffner
2005-05-17 19:52 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-17 20:05 ` John Heffner
2005-05-17 20:12 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 19:33 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-17 19:53 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-17 22:11 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-17 22:13 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 23:08 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-17 23:16 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-17 23:28 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-17 23:36 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-05-17 23:41 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 0:47 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 1:06 ` Arthur Kepner
2005-05-18 1:16 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 1:37 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 1:52 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 11:30 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 11:40 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 12:24 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 16:21 ` Rick Jones
2005-05-18 17:40 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 17:44 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 21:46 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-18 22:24 ` David Stevens
2005-05-18 22:39 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-05-18 23:31 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-18 21:45 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-19 12:23 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-19 12:48 ` Herbert Xu
2005-05-19 15:19 ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-19 17:02 ` Rick Jones
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