From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: the iptables that comes with all versions of RH (including 8.0) has a problem with the unclean module : unclean matches all udp packets that don't have the chksum field as being invalid (and from rfc... udp packets do NOT need to have the chksum) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.set the iptables to log and drop all unclean packets 2.try to connect to wwws.sun.com (you can try to browse www.sun.com->downloads) 3. Actual Results: connection will timeout and in the logs you will see several lines that states that iptables droped several upd packets with chksum zero Expected Results: to be able to connect to wwws.sun.com Additional info: there are several fixes for this bug, including that the team that created iptables released a patch
Please verify this with a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora Core and reopen it against the new version if it still occurs. Closing as "not a bug" for now.