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From: Vladimir <vlists@veus.hr>
To: niv@us.ibm.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Bug 3397] New: Network connections hang going through an OpenBSD firewall]
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:39:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41476519.9010606@veus.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040914141917.52cfa62e.davem@davemloft.net>

David S. Miller wrote:

>OpenBSD packet filter is busted, and the maintainer of
>it claims this is not a bug.
>
>That changes in 2.6.6 didn't "break" things, it enabled a
>feature in TCP that OpenBSD stateless TCP connection tracking
>cannot handle, and old TCP feature in fact, window scaling.
>
>See here for more info:
>
>http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/
>
Thanks. We were able to fix our firewall so things work properly now. 
The problem is that this is "insidious" since it is not immediately 
apparent what the problem is especially since it tends to work with all 
other OSes except Linux with 2.6.6+.

I will note this on the bug I submitted and close it.

Thanks a lot,

Vladimir Vuksan

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-14 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-14 21:00 [Fwd: [Bug 3397] New: Network connections hang going through an OpenBSD firewall] Nivedita Singhvi
2004-09-14 21:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-09-14 21:09 ` Vladimir
2004-09-14 21:19   ` David S. Miller
2004-09-14 21:39     ` Vladimir [this message]
2004-09-14 21:21   ` Nivedita Singhvi
2004-09-14 21:41     ` Tomasz Torcz
2004-09-14 21:45     ` Stephen Hemminger

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