> My favorite part is above. This shit cracks me up. > Now imagine if there were proprietary tcp protocols. > All sorts of different devices running there own version. > Yes it would be a nightmare.
I think you are mixing up things. TCP? No, that was another time, a little later: http://m.zdnet.com.au/cisco-to-patent-security-fix-139148177.htm http://kerneltrap.org/node/3085 just google "cisco tcp patent" and add openbsd in there to see a few more things. Eventually almost all vendors handled this by integrating fixes similar to what Markus Friedl had done in our network stack around a year beforehands, which was then much further extended by Fernando Gont over the two years. Hmm, but in that mess, there is Robert Barr again. http://www.ietf.org/ietf-ftp/IPR/cisco-ipr-draft-ietf-vrrp-ipv6-spec.txt https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/421/ IETF and Cisco, sitting in a tree....
