[82363] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Openbsd fixes icmp protocol bugs apparently ignored by the IETF
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Wed Jul 13 06:08:25 2005
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:37:58 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Chris Cappuccio <chris@nmedia.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050713072105.GA7471@ref.nmedia.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 13/07/05, Chris Cappuccio <chris@nmedia.net> wrote:
> He doesn't say that the IETF ignored him. That's not accurate. He
> clearly says that the IETF did not care. There's a difference. The
> issues were not considered important enough to fix by the IETF (as
> the problems lie in the basic ICMP specifications.)
>=20
> As for his claims about the Cisco manager, nobody called him a
> terrorist, that's outright absurd. Read more carefully. What they did w=
as
Some pointers to IETF threads would be great
I agree that some of these should be fixed - but jesus, they've been
around for years at least
regards
srs
--=20
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)