On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Tim Bass wrote:
Also, you have not responded by a valid technical question, but are hand-waving... I'll ask again. How do you propose a hack can do these three things at the same time.
This is not the right forum to discuss TCP internals nor is it the right forum to discuss building hardened kernels There are already lots of people working on fixing the SYN problems. Implementations are available for SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSDI, Linux, IRIX and perhaps others. Solaris can be protected by adjusting kernel resources with the ndd command. HP, SCO and others have announced that they have teams working on a fix. Most firewall companies are working on a solution for those sites protected by firewalls; two have announced available products. So what is it you are trying to do here? And why are you trying to do it here of all places?
I would appreciate it if you would not give credit to for ICMP UNREACHABLE to me. ICMP UNREACHABLE errors are in specified in RFC 793. Please 'redirect' this credit elsewhere. It is not my original idea.
OK, OK, OK, it was supposed to be a joke, a funny comment, a witticism.
All I am asking is for the procotcol to work as designed so I can have one more piece of info to use in an algorithm.
This is too much to ask for, IMHO.
Somewhat Patiently (but anxiously awaiting technical answers),
That's like sending an email to president@whitehouse.gov to tell him that you are hungry and then waiting anxiously for the Domino's delivery guy to knock at your door. You would get much better response to your questions if you would send a subscribe message to firewalls-request@greatcircle.com and ask there. Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com