Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:01:26 CDT, Adi Linden said:

> When my PC grabs an IP address, I'd expect to see zero traffic from the
> world unless I make a request for content. Only then should I see traffic
> and only the content I requested.

Remember - the RST packet is there so you can tell the other end that they're
trying to talk to a connection that isn't there - often due to the connection
having been with the *previous* machine using that IP address....

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