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From: Alex Pennace <alex@pennace.org>
To: George <greerga@entropy.muc.muohio.edu>
Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:59:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010129145950.A6208@buick.pennace.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200101291831.f0TIV7h484162@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101291423000.2416-100000@entropy.muc.muohio.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101291423000.2416-100000@entropy.muc.muohio.edu>; from greerga@entropy.muc.muohio.edu on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:26:51PM -0500

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:26:51PM -0500, George wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> >The author is expressing his wish for an ideal world. Note that he
> >also accepts reality. He accepts that PMTU black holes won't go
> >away, even though we might like them to do so.
> >
> >Hell, I think I'm behind one. ICMP is/was blocked to/from/within
> >the entire university. This was to stop ping flood attacks. :-)
> 
> So you get a UDP flood instead.
> 
> Congratulations on breaking something important (PMTU, "Port unreachable",
> etc.) for a false sense of security.

Your praise should be directed to UML telecommunications.

> Did you buy a non-upgraded Cisco PIX just to block ECN as well?

I wouldn't doubt it, but I haven't tested it on this network.
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-29 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-28  0:14 ECN: Clearing the air (fwd) jamal
2001-01-28  8:56 ` James Sutherland
2001-01-28 12:18   ` jamal
2001-01-28 13:29     ` James Sutherland
2001-01-28 14:34       ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-01-28 16:44         ` James Sutherland
2001-01-29  7:32           ` David S. Miller
2001-01-29 12:30             ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-29 18:31             ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-29 19:02               ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2001-01-29 19:27               ` George
2001-01-29 19:59                 ` Alex Pennace [this message]
2001-01-28 14:54       ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-28 16:15       ` jamal
2001-01-28 17:11         ` James Sutherland
2001-01-28 18:07           ` jamal
2001-01-28 20:13           ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-29  2:58         ` David Lang
2001-01-29  7:20           ` David S. Miller
2001-01-28 19:42       ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-29  0:14         ` Jamie Lokier
2001-01-31 18:02         ` Alan Cox
2001-02-03 16:51           ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-01-29 12:57       ` Peter Samuelson
2001-01-28 17:39     ` Rogier Wolff
2001-01-28 18:01       ` Graham Murray
2001-01-28 18:08       ` jamal
2001-01-28 18:23         ` Rogier Wolff
2001-01-28 18:38           ` jamal
2001-01-28 20:18         ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-28 21:33           ` ECN fixes for Cisco gear Dax Kelson
2001-01-28 22:09             ` ECN connectivity surveys Dax Kelson
2001-01-28 21:45           ` ECN fixes for Cisco gear Lincoln Dale
2001-01-28 14:04   ` ECN: Clearing the air (fwd) Ben Ford
2001-01-28 14:09     ` James Sutherland
2001-01-28 15:38       ` Ben Ford
2001-01-28 19:55       ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-28 19:45     ` Gregory Maxwell

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