Re: [BUG?] tcp: potential bug in tcp_is_sackblock_valid()

3 messages, 3 authors, 2011-09-18 · open the first message on its own page

Re: [BUG?] tcp: potential bug in tcp_is_sackblock_valid()

From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2011-09-18 20:39:17

Le samedi 17 septembre 2011 à 11:30 -0700, Dave Taht a écrit :
As cerowrt is one of the few projects enabling sack/dsack/ecn by
default, it would be good to know either
dsack is enabled by default on linux, not only cerowt project.
A) how to test to see if this problem is really a problem
B) should we apply the obvious fix
Isnt Cerowrt a router, most of frames are forwarded anyway ?

This bug is relevant to linux hosts, receiving Duplicate Sacks (RFC
2883).

Re: [BUG?] tcp: potential bug in tcp_is_sackblock_valid()

From: Dave Taht <hidden>
Date: 2011-09-18 21:04:45

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Eric Dumazet [off-list ref] wrote:
Le samedi 17 septembre 2011 à 11:30 -0700, Dave Taht a écrit :
quoted
As cerowrt is one of the few projects enabling sack/dsack/ecn by
default, it would be good to know either
dsack is enabled by default on linux, not only cerowt project.
quoted
A) how to test to see if this problem is really a problem
B) should we apply the obvious fix
Isnt Cerowrt a router, most of frames are forwarded anyway ?
A very large suite of network test tools runs on the router itself -
netperf, nuttcp, iperf, httping, etc.

netperf, for example, ships, enabled.

This is a means of being able to analyze performance of both the LFN
and wireless from a central point,
from a well defined platform,
without having a random desktop involved.
This bug is relevant to linux hosts, receiving Duplicate Sacks (RFC
2883).






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Re: [BUG?] tcp: potential bug in tcp_is_sackblock_valid()

From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hidden>
Date: 2011-09-18 21:20:42

* Dave Taht | 2011-09-18 14:04:44 [-0700]:
A very large suite of network test tools runs on the router itself -
netperf, nuttcp, iperf, httping, etc.
But then the router _act_ as an end-host - no forwarding.

HGN
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