Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-28T00:06:49Z

On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:18:31PM -0800, David Schwartz wrote:
> > Firewalling should be implemented on the hosts, perhaps with centralized
> > policy management. In such a situation, there would be no reason to filter
> > on funny IP options.
>
> That's madness. If you have to implement your firewalling on every host,
> what do you do when someone wants to run a new OS? Forbid it?

No a standard management interface would be followed by every host. Not
unlike configuring your ipaddress with DHCP.