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Echo Host? / Echo Probe?

  • From: mcquaidj
  • Date: Thu Apr 03 11:59:04 1997


From: Jim [email protected] on 04/03/97 11:32 AM


To:   [email protected]
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Subject:  Echo Host? / Echo Probe?


Is anyone using the concept of echo hosts today for testing, debugging, QA,
etc.?

Would anyone find it useful to have a network device which implemented the
echo host idea (RFC 2075) and was completely separate from any network
element or host?  (That is, any hi-jacking of / messing with /security
breaches to this device would be completely isolated and have no effect on
any other network element)

Disclaimer: the author works for a leading vendor of RMON probes.  The
question does not relate to any immediate product; the answers might.



Jim McQuaid

NetScout Systems, formerly Frontier Software  (508) 244-4001 x 1456

[email protected] / www.netscout.com

[email protected]  / www.frontier.com still works!



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