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Re: Openbsd fixes icmp protocol bugs apparently ignored by the IETF

  • From: Suresh Ramasubramanian
  • Date: Wed Jul 13 06:09:02 2005
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On 13/07/05, Chris Cappuccio <[email protected]> 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

I agree that some of these should be fixed - but jesus, they've been
around for years at least

regards
srs

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Suresh Ramasubramanian ([email protected])