Re: Race: netfilter

From: Rusty Russell (rusty@linuxcare.com.au)
Date: Tue Jun 20 2000 - 13:46:57 EST


In message <394D5788.EBA85AB7@baldauf.org> you write:
> while true; echo test1; do modprobe iptable_nat; echo test2; rmmod
> iptable_nat; rmmod ip_conntrack; rmmod ip_tables; done
>
> After some lines, you'll get disconnected when running this from
> telnet. (It seems that every TCP connection without a flushed buffer
> will get disconnected.)

Hi Xuan...

        I'm running this now (ac21 with a patch) and it seems fine.
This is the only known race: the patch went in ac22 (Alan was crafty
enough to snarf it from the ether somehow: I suspect a mole).

If you can duplicate it then: what platform, and are you SMP?
Rusty.

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Hacking time.

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