[OmniOS-discuss] strangeness ssh into omnios from oi_151a9

[Lauri Tirkkonen]

On Mon, Sep 28 2015 08:21:46 -0400, Dan McDonald wrote:
> 
> > On Sep 28, 2015, at 8:15 AM, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:
> > 
> > If 5850 is indeed the problem, you need to report this to the
> > illumos developers list, including a deterministic way of
> > reproducing it.
> 
> I see you filed bug 6264, which is a good first step.  Please make
> sure you summarize the how-to-reproduce in it.
> 
> I also wonder if you patch your oi_151a9 box with 5850, AND keep 5850
> on your OmniOS machine, whether or not this problem ALSO goes away.
> After all, this fix specifically targets machines that drop
> timestamps...

If my analysis is correct (see the mail I sent to this thread
previously), then applying 5850 to the oi_151a9 box will cause the issue
to disappear -- both peers will then ignore the injected window change
segment because it has no timestamps. Of course, it's possible that the
middlebox won't like being ignored and might cause other failures (it
could still inject RSTs, for example, since those are not required to
have timestamps).

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