On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 07:35 -0700, Phil Oester wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 06:58:05AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > Yeah, but here, this is conntrack who is blocking the thing. > > > > 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. > > Better to fix the box which is randomizing the acks and ignoring > the SACKs. Usually these are older Cisco PIX/ASA devices which just > need a code upgrade. Having a patch to relax things could be evaluated, if not adding new problems ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle ) -- 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
