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Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2024 20:27:16 +0100 (CET)
From: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
To: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
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    Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@arista.com>, 
    Salam Noureddine <noureddine@arista.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>, 
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Subject: Re: syslog spam: TCP segment has incorrect auth options set
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On Thu, 4 Jan 2024, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2024, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> > Yeah, I guess it's possible to down the severity of these logs, but may
> > be unexpected by admins: TCP-MD5 messages existed for long time and
> > there may be userspace that expects them (i.e. in arista there are tests
> > that look for these specific messages - those would be easy to fix, but
> > there may be others outside this company).
> 
> Understood, thanks for explaining that.
> 
> > While thinking on the origin of your issue, it seems that the logs
> > produced by either TCP-MD5 or TCP-AO are desired by a user when they
> > add/use the authentication. Could you try this and see if that solves
> > the issue for you?
> 
> Thanks for preparing that patch so quickly, did not expect that :-)
> 
> I've applied this on top of 6.7.0-rc8 and will report back if I see those 
> messages again in the next days.

No messages so far, great!

Tested-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>

Thanks again for fixing this so quickly,
Christian.
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