Re: Linux 2.2.16 through 2.2.18preX TCP hang bug triggered by rsync

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:32:44AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> Andi Kleen writes:
>  > It's mostly for security to make it more difficult to nuke connections
>  > without knowing the sequence number.
>  > 
>  > Remember RFC is from a very different internet with much less DoS attacks.
> 
> Andi, one of the worst DoSs in the world is not being able to
> communicate with half of the systems out there.

If it was that serious then there would be surely more reports ;)

> 
> BSD and Solaris both make these kinds of packets, therefore it is must
> to handle them properly.  So we will fix Linux, there is no argument.

How do you propose to handle them? Queue the data anyways or just process
the ACK?

-Andi