Openbsd fixes icmp protocol bugs apparently ignored by the IETF

Wed Jul 13 14:53:26 UTC 2005

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> On 13/07/05, Chris Cappuccio <chris at nmedia.net> wrote:
>> He doesn't say that the IETF ignored him.  That's not accurate.  He
>> clearly says that the IETF did not care.  There's a difference.  The
>> issues were not considered important enough to fix by the IETF (as
>> the problems lie in the basic ICMP specifications.)
>>
>> As for his claims about the Cisco manager, nobody called him a
>> terrorist, that's outright absurd.  Read more carefully.  What they did was
>
> Some pointers to IETF threads would be great

Look for "" at TCPM WG archives at 
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/index.html

There have been multiple threads on the subject -- look for "ICMP". 
In the last 5 months, the following messages have generated message 
thread(s).

http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg01026.html
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg01018.html
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg01066.html
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg01111.html
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg01185.html
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg01210.html

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