[166310] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IRC SASL Auth borked over Sprint 4G
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Moats)
Wed Oct 16 12:14:04 2013
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:12:16 -0400
From: Sam Moats <sam@circlenet.us>
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We had an IBM Proventia IPS system on one network that I was
responsible for. Despite our best configuration efforts it insisted on
sending TCP resets to both sides with the counterparties IP address in
the source whenever we tried SASL. I never did get a firm answer as to
why. Perhaps it's a similar issue?
Sam Moats
On 2013-10-16 12:06, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> Both WiMax and LTE, as far as I can tell, block SASL auth somehow,
> such that
> while tethered through my Galaxy S4 (and my old Evo 4G), I can't log
> into
> Freenode.
>
> Does anyone here know why, or of a workaround?
>
> This is -- According To Google -- a well known, pervasive problem.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
