Re: ipt_unclean: TCP flags bad: 4

Alan J. Wylie (alan.nospam@glaramara.freeserve.co.uk)
Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:10:12 +0100


On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:51:43 +0200 (CEST), Luigi Genoni <kernel@Expansa.sns.it> said:

> There was a bug introduced with kernel 2.4.6, but it was solved with
> one of the latest 2.4.7-pre patch, i do not remember which one.

> actually i was happily using tcp_unclean on my production servers,
> but with 2.4.6 i was forced to avoid it. I still have to try 2.4.7
> to see if it works properly.

> If you use a rule like

> iptables -A INPUT -m unlean -j DROP
^^^^^^
unclean, unclean <ding> ;-)

> are you still able to connect in/out of your box?

$MYIPTABLES --append INPUT --match unclean --jump DROP

has been at the start of my rules for a long time. I wasn't seeing
any *serious* problems browsing the web, etc., but was getting a few
"unable to connect to host" pages. Some of them went away on refresh,
but some sites I just couldn't get to. On the other hand, that's
normal for the Internet.

-- 
Alan J. Wylie                        http://www.glaramara.freeserve.co.uk/
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but rather when there is nothing left to take away."
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