Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 14:31:47 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipdivert & masqd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970129143012.969G-100000@darkstar> In-Reply-To: <9701292125.AA24747@snake.srv.net>
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On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Darren Reed wrote: > In some mail from Charles Mott, sie said: > > > > > But anything after the 512th data byte in the TCP payload will be ignored, > > > so if your message is 512 bytes long, contains a DCC request in it, > > > information will be lost that the sender is not aware about (this assumes > > > the packet is just one IRC message) if the payload size must increase as > > > a result. > > > > > > It is a *much* better idea to redirect IRC to a local TCP port and process > > > it using a proxy agent. Same could also be said for FTP. > > > > > > Darren > > > > Darren, > > > > In theory, one can construct cases where the FTP logic in the packet > > aliasing software won't work (IP fragmenting a PORT command, or where the > > PORT command is split between TCP packets with different sequence numbers, > > or where the PORT command is in the middle of a packet, and so forth). > > > > In practice, these situations are not seen, and the packet aliasing > > software works for FTP. The system loading is very low, and the software > > easily scales to situations where there are large numbers of users. > > > > I don't know about IRC, but my guess is that the real situation is simpler > > than the theoretical. Whatever Linux does to handle IRC, I am told that > > it looks fairly similar to what one does for FTP. > > Well, in practice, the TIS FWTK/Gauntlet was sending the FTP PORT command > in two packets, so that Linux would break and so too did Firewall-1. > > Darren > That is curious. What does TIS FWTK/Gauntlet do? Charles Mott
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