From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: Passive OS fingerprinting.
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:44:36 +0200
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Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> I for one would be much happier to only have netfilter as a user
>> of this :)
> 
> I'm not sure I understand?  When site A connects to site B via TCP, is 
> there a problem letting site A know the OS of site B?

No, I expressed myself very unclear, sorry :) I meant to say
that I would be happier to have netfilter as a user of some
generic infrastructure instead of having all of this implemented
as netfilter module.