[82369] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Openbsd fixes icmp protocol bugs apparently ignored by the IETF
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pekka Savola)
Wed Jul 13 10:54:05 2005
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:53:26 +0300 (EEST)
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Cappuccio <chris@nmedia.net>, NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a0507130307526a7a1@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> 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.)
>>
>> As for his claims about the Cisco manager, nobody called him a
>> terrorist, that's outright absurd. Read more carefully. What they did was
>
> Some pointers to IETF threads would be great
Look for "" at TCPM WG archives at
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/index.html
There have been multiple threads on the subject -- look for "ICMP".
In the last 5 months, the following messages have generated message
thread(s).
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg01026.html
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg01018.html
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg01066.html
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg01111.html
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg01185.html
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg01210.html
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