Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] Account for duplicate ACKs with invalid SACK-blocks

From: Corey Hickey <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:15:31 -0700

On 2013-08-21 20:32, David Miller wrote:
> From: Christoph Paasch <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:29:26 +0200
> 
>> There exist sequence-number rewriting middleboxes, who do not modify the 
>> sequence-number in the SACK-blocks.
> 
> These are bugs that the vendor's should fix, not something we should
> cater to at all.
> 
> I'm not applying patches like these, and I've rejected similar
> workarounds in the past 18 years, so this position is strong and
> consistent.
> 
> Sorry.

That's not terrible for me; we'll most likely be turning off SEQ
randomization on the FWSM, when we have time to make sure it doesn't
break anything (which it shouldn't).

-Corey