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Re: Filtering devices spotting

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren Reed)
Thu Jan 2 13:13:22 2003

From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Message-Id: <200301021732.EAA28594@caligula.anu.edu.au>
To: ed3f@overminder.com (Ed3f)
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 04:32:35 +1100 (Australia/ACT)
In-Reply-To: <000001c2b199$7bc4c180$022aa8c0@thunder> from "Ed3f" at Jan 01, 2003 02:27:08 PM
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In some mail from Ed3f, sie said:
> 
> 
> ************************ SECURITY ALERT ************************
> 
> 
> Systems Affected
> 
> 	100% of packet filtering systems included commercial
> 	embedded devices
> 	(no unaffected system known at the moment)

Well, not quite 100%...

You have been able to filter on bad TCP checksums in IPFilter for
some time - see this email message from me to the ipfilter list some
4 months ago:

http://false.net/ipfilter/2002_08/0250.html

I'm trying to get other things done and fixed before saying "4.0 is
no longer alpha".

Darren


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