On 19/08/13 - 06:58:05, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 15:49 +0200, Christoph Paasch wrote: > > It's a TCP-patch, that interprets duplicate-acks with invalid SACK-blocks as > > duplicate acks in tcp_sock->sacked_out. > > Yeah, but here, this is conntrack who is blocking the thing. Yes, of course. I know that here conntrack is blocking the dup-ACKs. Sorry for having added TCP-stack specific things in a conntrack-thread. I just wanted to highlight that the TCP-stack has also problems with sequence-number rewriting middleboxes. > TCP receiver has no chance to 'fix' it. > > See conntrack is one of those buggy middle box as well. > > So if you want to properly handle this mess, you'll also have to fix > conntrack. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
