Re: Firewalls that generate new packets..

[Dave Piscitello <dave () corecom com>]

ZOMG! That's true, they are not crappy.

Of course, if they are popularized and marketed as disruptive 
technologies they will be "enhanced" and will devolve to crappy quite 
rapidly and join the crappy club of HTTP/SIP/SNMP/SMTP/FTP/SSH/IPSEC...

jdgorin () computer org wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> That's an easy challenge to answer:
>  RFC 862 - ECHO Protocol
>  RFC 863 - DISCARD Protocol
>  RFC 864 - CHARGEN Protocol
>
> Those protocols are not crappy ;-)
> But, you can do nasty things with them...
>
> JDG
>
> > Dave Piscitello wrote:
> >
> > LOLZ
> >
> > I can quickly identify LOTS of crappy protocols running over
> > TCP/IP and UDP/IP.
> >
> > Give me an example of one you think is *not* crappy:-)
> >
> > Paul Melson wrote:
> > > The downside is that this can break crappy protocols (or
> > > even normal protocols in the case of a misconfigured firewall).

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