Arnaldo asked me to send these, they have been made independent of the patches in the test tree (but will be made available for review). Patch #1: Cosmetics, but required by other patches - shortens many occurrences of very long variable names. Patch #2: Reset/Sync-Flood Bug fix. The bug has been known for a long while (I recently found an email from Ian who mentioned it as early as December), a previous discussion with Eddie helped to track down where the bug originates. Patch has detailed description of how bug is triggered, and fixes the described symptom. Patch #3: Renames parameter for clarity (was confusing). Patch #4: Rate-Limit DCCP Syncs. This is recommended in RFC 4340 and from own experience I found that rate-limiting alone can terminate oscillating Sync message exchanges, i.e. it increases resilience against malfunction and attacks. Patch #5: Second bug - in REQUEST state, a Reset is sent in response to Sync, not SyncAck. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dccp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html