Chris Adams wrote:
Okay, I've got an odd one, and I'm hoping a kernel developer can at
least point me in the right direction.
I've got a Linux box (Fedora Core 5 and kernel 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5),
sitting behind a Juniper J2300 router (running JUNOS 7.3R2.6),
attempting to FTP to an Alphaserver running Tru64 (5.1B or 4.0G).
With that combination and a stateful firewall enabled on the Juniper, I
do not get the FTP banner when I open an FTP connection. The connection
just sits there. This is not the traditional FTP problems (active vs.
passive, reverse DNS lookup, authentication, etc.).
If I downgrade my Linux box to the FC5 release kernel
(2.6.15-1.2054_FC5), it works fine. If I upgrade to the rawhide kernel
(2.6.17-1.2583.fc6), it does not work.
Any other combination of OSes works (FTP from WinXP to Tru64, FTP from
Linux to Linux or Windows). An FC4 client with a (IIRC) 2.6.16 kernel
also works to Tru64.
Now, this appears to be a Juniper JUNOS bug (and our Juniper SE is going
to open a case), but what could have changed between Linux kernels
2.6.15 and 2.6.17 that would trigger it? I'm hoping to narrow this down
somehow to help Juniper find the problem.
I would compare the output of "cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/*" on
2.6.15-1.2054 and 2.6.17-1.2174 with diff. Then try configuring
2.6.17-1.2174 like 2.6.15-1.2054 and see if it helps.
Also I would advocate being careful running older kernels. I recently
had a client who's server was running a kernel two or three versions
behind 2.6.17-1.2174, and a local exploit to attain root access was
used. It is a known issue and was fixed in the next kernel, but he
hadn't updated.
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