From: James (james@towardex.com)
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 14:15:11 GMT-3
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 01:06:44PM -0400, Tom Martin wrote:
> I can't believe it either... It's dated April 1st!
>
> You may also be interested in RFC3093, Firewall Enhancement Protocol. :)
From time to time, you will see april fools joke in RFC's :)
I believe the latest one was in regards to the Evil-bit (1 or 0. If set to 1,
then the packet is evil and thus must be discarded by the TCP/IP stack
uncondtionally) in TCP/IP header.
One of the FreeBSD Project developers went as far as creating a kernel source
patch, when applied and recompiled upon, will drop packets with evil-bit set :)
Of course, the patch was a completely for humour and was never committed to the
official OS source tree.
-J
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