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

[David S. Miller]

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.

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.

Later,
David S. Miller
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