Re: Linux blind TCP spoofing, act II + others

[alan () LXORGUK UKUU ORG UK (Alan Cox)]

> So, the version of my patch for 2.0.34 didn't need to fix this any
> more.  Of course, future updates of the patch I was making based on
> the latest one, and never bothered to check for this bug again.
>
> Now, after your post, I am looking at patch-2.0.35.gz:
>
> -     return 0;
> +     return 1;
>
> So, the "feature" got re-introduced in 2.0.35.  I don't know of the
> reason for this.  I can only guess that the other major TCP changes

It was put back into 2.0.35 because the "fix" caused interoperability
problems with many other stacks.

Alan