Rafi Sadowsky wrote:
> 
> ## On 2002-04-08 21:03 +0200 Mikael Olsson typed:
> MO> Paul Robertson wrote:
> MO> > 2. Ditto ICMP without breaking unreachables, etc.
> MO>
> MO> I'm not quite following you here.
> MO> Unless of course you're talking about a transparent proxy
> MO> doing some ICMP error magic that I'm not familiar with,
> MO> in which case you just invalidated your previous point :)
> MO>
> 
>  For example: How about path MTU Discovery with different MTU's on both
> sides of the Firewall? (assuming of course that p-MTU works at all ;-)

This is definately true. (If, of course, this is what Paul was 
referring to, which is not unlikely; I'm just being my usual 
dim bulb self.)

I didn't consider PMTU. This is a good point. Although allowing
(and consistency verifying) "fragmentation needed" errors through 
an SPF isn't exactly rocket science. Just a pain in the ass to
do properly in order to avoid firewalking exposure. (Aaargh yes
I know: with a proxy you wouldn't even have to worry. &%#&�#&%)

I need to come up with better arguments or I'm going to come out
looking a (bigger than usual) fool :)

> MO> We offset all sequence numbers by random numbers generated by
> MO> the Yarrow PRNG.
 
> AFAIK the Cisco PIX will randomize TCP ISN numbers
> What makes yours unique ?

As I said:
> MO> I just don't know of another example.

Now I do.

If the PIX does this, we are apparently not unique in this capability.
(However, please note that I never claimed that we were.)
This is good though: it makes me less of a marketroid, and 
gives me more ammo to use against Paul :)


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