Just a reminder, people claim that 80% of all IP-based equipment is never connected directly to "THE Internet"....whatever THE is...
Jim Fleming http://www.RepliGate.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Francis Dupont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 8:03 AM Subject: Re: draft-rajahalme-ipv6-flow-label-00.txt > In your previous mail you wrote: > > I'm afraid this brings us back to the slippery slope > of edge-remarkers and the layer violation of routers > wanting to look at L4+ headers, and the inherent > difficulty/impossibility. > > => I agree I don't like this but this is a fact. > BTW if the XXXServ is not for free, I am afraid that > this (and similar tools like security gateways) is needed > in order to keep a reasonable control... > > Please, let's not go there again. > > => I may not throw away a vendor of a well-known router company > when he proposes to use a "transparent proxy"... Until all boxes > will be NextToComeServ capable as my BSD boxes, we have to > bear far worse than managing XXXServ or/and any other advanced > function at the first router. > > Regards > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > PS: AH is useful, for instance if AH was used with all the tunneling > stuff under FUD in another thread of this list, the answer would be > so simple! > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List > IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng > FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng > Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- >
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