Re: Problems with parsing tcp options on linux 2.2 and 2.4-pre

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 11:12:39AM +0200, Pasi Sarolahti wrote:
> 
> After a couple of printk - enhanced rounds I did a simple test
> commenting out the following in tcp_fast_parse_options():
> 
> /* If we didn't send out any options ignore them all. */
>         if (tp->tcp_header_len == sizeof(struct tcphdr))
>                 return 0;
> 
> After this SACK started working nicely. Are we facing a bug or do I have
> some kind of misunderstanding here?

Yes, it is a long standing bug that is fixed in 2.2.17pre9


-Andi

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