In message <3B8A262C.82ED7793@ted.ericsson.dk> you write:
> Hi gurus,
> I've possibly found a bug in the iptables unclean match support
> but I was not able to find the email of the mantainer so I'm posting
> here....
>
> the module is incorrectly matching ftp session. Ex:
>
> iptables -j DROP -A INPUT --match unclean
> iptables -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 21
>
> in this case all my packets directed to the ftp server where dropped by
> the
> "unclean" match and this make impossible to open ftp session.
Please do not do this. "unclean" should be renamed "interesting": you
should log these packets, but probably not drop them, otherwise some
things may break.
Like ECN...
Cheers,
Rusty.
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