Which begs the question: What vendor? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 3:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [funsec] Evil bit now official?
RFC 3514 (http://rfc.dotsrc.org/rfc/rfc3514.html and other places) is one of the "April Fools" RFCs. It takes one of the unused bits in the IPv4 header and suggests that it be used as an "evil" flag, so that we can know which packets to drop at firewalls. A few days ago I was looking at some vendor material and noticed that the "evil bit" was identified in the IP header ... ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works. - RFC 1925 #11 http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
