Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 09:47:14 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alfaro@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel
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On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 05:55:42PM +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> > There might be some subtle changes in the netfilter/routing
> > interaction which break user configurations, but this still being
> > tracked down (and maybe the any behavior is fine because it's
> > unspecified; hard to tell).
> 
> Yeah! For example, the first datagram triggering an IPSec SA is always
> lost (instead of being queued until the IPSec SA has been
> established).
> 
> For example, try pinging the IPSec SA peer for the very first time and
> the first ICMP datagram will always return "resource currently
> unavailable" and, of course, will get lost.
> 
> BTW this works perfectly under *BSD and Mac OS X.

Do the network kernel developers know about this issue?  And if so, what
have they said about it?

thanks,

greg k-h
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