On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Perry Halbert <[email protected]> wrote: > Question, > > Why not put this in an Extension Pack as an addon instead of changing the > base code for everyone? > Developing Extension Pack is harder than this patch. (it means, that only very big features will make it into ext.pack), or features with incompatible licenses (like VNC).
> Myself I like the idea of being able to either have this or not. Seems to me > that is one reason that the Ext. Pack was implemented. What about the > security of the added UDP protocol such as three-way handshake that is > missing in UDP used for the validity of the claimed source address. I know > that all of this seems small but to rush to change the base without > considering the underlaying issues seems wrong. > If the decision is to include this in the base then there should also be a > way to disable it built in as well. Just don't use it if you don't like it. I don't use "Host-only network", because for my use cases, loopback + bridge cover this need. UDP tunnel is not secured, and this is by design, and documented in the docs. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
