From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 24 11:26:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bubba.whistle.com (s205m7.whistle.com [207.76.205.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC66215352 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:26:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id LAA92595; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:25:35 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199903241925.LAA92595@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: Will IPFW pass GRE packets? In-Reply-To: from John Polstra at "Mar 24, 99 11:14:20 am" To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:25:35 -0800 (PST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Polstra writes: > > Basically I agree with you, but it's agreement "in practice" > > rather than "in theory". In other words, Microsoft (and Ascend, > > 3Com, Copper Mountain, and ECI) may have done something that was > > just plain stupid, but they didn't do anything that was a blatant > > violation of any spec. > > Yep, I think we're in violent agreement. :-) > > I think what bugs me is that Microsoft didn't just leave the checksum > as optional. They actually specified that it's not to be used. :-( Yes, there would have been no harm in that. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message