From: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
To: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] netfilter: Ignore bogus SACK option values in TCP conntrack
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 09:22:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130915162252.GA7020@linuxace.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1309042059510.8849@blackhole.kfki.hu>
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:16:14PM +0200, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
> I have been thinking on this from time to time and couldn't come up with a
> solution which is satisfying: even if an nf_conntrack_tcp_sack_be_liberal
> flag is added to the patch, if it's default off, then that's almost the
> same situations as we have at the present.
With the additional sysctl, at least the 0.1% of admins which are bit by
these braindead anonymizer boxes would have the option of working around
them without completely disabling TCP window tracking.
Phil
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-15 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-02 18:57 [PATCH 0/1] netfilter: Ignore bogus SACK option values in TCP conntrack Jozsef Kadlecsik
2013-09-02 18:58 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Jozsef Kadlecsik
2013-09-02 20:39 ` Corey Hickey
2013-09-02 21:57 ` Phil Oester
2013-09-03 7:31 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2013-09-04 16:54 ` Phil Oester
2013-09-13 20:16 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2013-09-15 16:22 ` Phil Oester [this message]
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