Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:25:35 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will IPFW pass GRE packets? Message-ID: <199903241925.LAA92595@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990324111420.jdp@polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Mar 24, 99 11:14:20 am"
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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
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