Probably the same one that implements RFC 1216, reducing the processing power of their network nodes, to eliminate bandwidth saturation, in the interest of economics, of course ;-)
>-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >On Behalf Of Alex Eckelberry >Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 2:58 PM >To: [email protected]; [email protected] >Subject: Re: [funsec] Evil bit now official? > >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. _______________________________________________ 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.
