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Date:      Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:30:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mohan Srinivasan <mohan_srinivasan@yahoo.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Sam Jansen <sam@meta.net.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SACK problems
Message-ID:  <20050210213057.96467.qmail@web80606.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050210212852.GA10195@xor.obsecurity.org>

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No. That fix is not relevant.

I'll take a look at this in a bit (after I fix the other SACK
issue reported a couple of days ago).

mohan

--- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:15:35AM +1300, Sam Jansen wrote:
> > During some testing on an isolated network we have, I found some 
> > interesting behaviour from a FreeBSD 5.3 host using TCP SACK.
> > 
> > I've detailed this problem fully at:
> > 
> >    http://www.wand.net.nz/~stj2/nsc/emu_freebsd.html
> > 
> > PCAP traces and some screenshots from tcptrace graphs can be found at 
> > the above link to show what is happening. It looks to me like SACK 
> > blocks are being incorrectly generated in this example. I can't think of 
> > any valid reason why a SACK block would SACK from below the current ACK 
> > value to above it (which is the problem here).
> > 
> > Thoughts, anyone? Am I just wrong here and this is valid, expected 
> > behaviour?
> 
> A fix to the SACK code was committed yesterday, which may or may not
> be relevant.
> 
> Kris
> 

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