On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a situation where there was issue, bug, exploit, in the tcp/ip stack
> which caused ip communication to go dead then serial line communication
> may also be affected, because the Heartbeat Package uses an UDP
> Heartbeat over ppp when a serial connection is used.
> I don't really know if this is the case or not. I have no knowledge of
> the inner working of the linux tcp/ip code.
Sure, but it hardly matters, since if this is a firewall and your tcp/ip
stack has gone south, then you're still dead, because you won't be routing
packets!
--
Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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