Re: [Problem] Linux 2.4.5-ac17 ipt_unclean 'fixes'

[Josh McKinney]

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Me too.

On approximately Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 05:00:21PM -0500, J Troy Piper wrote:
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> > 2.4.5-ac17
> > o	First set of ipt_unclean fixes			(Rusty Russell)
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> Alan,=20
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> I apologise for having taken so long to write this (I have known about=20
> this problem since 2.4.5ac17 and have not had a chance to document til=20
> today) but there seems to be a problem with the ipt_unclean fixes by Rust=
y=20
> Russell.  ANY incoming packets from any interface (ppp0 and eth0) are=20
> marked as 'unclean' with some variation on the following syslog entry:
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> Jul  8 23:16:04 paranoia kernel: ipt_unclean: TCP option 3 at 37 too long
> Jul  8 23:16:05 paranoia kernel: ipt_unclean: TCP option 3 at 37 too long
> Jul  8 23:16:16 paranoia kernel: ipt_unclean: TCP option 3 at 37 too long
> Jul  8 23:16:18 paranoia kernel: ipt_unclean: TCP option 3 at 37 too long
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> and thus are blocked by my 'unclean packet dropping' firewall (iptables).
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> I haven't seen any mention of this on the list, nor have I seen any more=
=20
> ipt_unclean patches to address this problem, so here's your heads-up=20
> (albeit a bit late).
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> Thanks,
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> J Troy Piper
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