Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 19:48:34 +1000 From: Richard Jones <richard@a42.deep-thought.org> To: dg@root.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD TCP stack and RST processing [subj changed] Message-ID: <m0xGLOU-0024w4C@a42.deep-thought.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Oct 1997 01:33:34 MST." <199710010833.BAA08234@implode.root.com>
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[childish stuff from myself deleted] then David Greenman <dg@root.com> wrote: > > You're being very presumptious about too many things. While we try to > respond in a timely manner, your original message was posted only 24 hours > ago and more importantly, right before a code freeze for our next release. It was closer to 48 hours than 24 and I assumed the original email had been skipped. I Apologise for my childish response and impatience. > I've personally been busy trying to make sure that important fixes have > been merged before the deadline and haven't had time to look into the > problem you've reported. Once again I aplogise, I was unawre the FreeBSD project was in a close-to-deadline situation. > Your report lacks many important details, not > the least of which is the versions of FreeBSD you've tested this with. > "freefall" is running old code from about 4 months ago, and might very well > not have some important fixes. Ok the other system tested was 2-2 Stable. implode.root.com exhibits the same behaviour as does 204.216.27.21 (the real freefall as pointed out by you in a later mail). The main reason I didn't provide version info was that I thought it was an easy enough situation to replicate if it was indeed replicatable. Unfortunately I know of no systems that are running CURRENT to test upon. > We're generally a pretty friendly croud, but your attitude is certainly > making this much more difficult than it needs to be. Yes, I did not mean to be as obnoxious as I came across [yeah , all the obnoxious bastards say that right] , things were mostly mean tongue in cheek, perhaps more smilies and/or manners would have helped. I doubt this is any more info I can provide. At a guess if a problem exists and this is not just a harmless FreeBSD eccentricity then its in the RST processing (Duh), possibly brought about by recent SYN flood protection code, although if hub is an unpatched code base of several years old this may not be it. TCP extensions? I Dunno, anyways I figured this would be best solved by the people that maintain the code, hence posting here. Richard Jones.
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