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Re: WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again?


From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 22:59:34 -0500

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Brielle Bruns <bruns () 2mbit com> wrote:
Lets not even get into the fact that we still can't fully utilize things
like already established standards such as ECN, EDNS, and PMTUD effectively
because firewall and security vendors still can't extricate their heads from
backside and handle basic functionality of IPv4 without throwing the packets
on the floor.

PMTUD is broken as designed, the one thing about TCP which directly
violates the end-to-end principle.

-Bill

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William Herrin ................ herrin () dirtside com  bill () herrin us
Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>


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