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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel@linuxace.com, bugfood-ml@fatooh.org,
	benjamin.hesmans@uclouvain.be
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] Account for duplicate ACKs with invalid SACK-blocks
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:32:01 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130821.203201.369023440348094508.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1376940568-16512-1-git-send-email-christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>

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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-22  3:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-18  5:55 NAT stops forwarding ACKs after PMTU discovery Corey Hickey
2013-08-18 15:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-08-18 16:59   ` Corey Hickey
2013-08-18 21:23   ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2013-08-19  0:00     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-08-19  0:03       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-08-19  8:43         ` Corey Hickey
2013-08-19 12:33           ` Christoph Paasch
2013-08-19 13:24             ` Eric Dumazet
2013-08-19 13:49               ` Christoph Paasch
2013-08-19 13:58                 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-08-19 14:35                   ` Phil Oester
2013-08-19 15:32                     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-08-19 15:33                     ` Christoph Paasch
2013-08-19 16:00                       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-08-19 17:15                         ` Christoph Paasch
2013-08-19 18:00                           ` Phil Oester
2013-08-19 18:10                           ` Eric Dumazet
2013-08-19 19:29                             ` [RFC 0/2] Account for duplicate ACKs with invalid SACK-blocks Christoph Paasch
2013-08-19 19:29                               ` [RFC 1/2] Use acked_out for reno-style ack acounting instead of sacked_out Christoph Paasch
2013-08-19 19:29                               ` [RFC 2/2] Account acked_out in sack, if the sack is invalid Christoph Paasch
2013-08-19 21:22                               ` [RFC 0/2] Account for duplicate ACKs with invalid SACK-blocks Corey Hickey
2013-08-20  7:36                                 ` Christoph Paasch
2013-08-22  3:32                               ` David Miller [this message]
2013-08-22  4:15                                 ` Corey Hickey
2013-08-19 14:43                   ` NAT stops forwarding ACKs after PMTU discovery Christoph Paasch
2013-08-19 20:13                   ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2013-08-19 20:43                     ` Christoph Paasch
2013-08-19 21:08                     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-08-19 22:07                       ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2013-08-20  4:18                         ` Corey Hickey
2013-08-19 18:22             ` Corey Hickey

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