From: Rob Laidlaw (laidlaw@consecro.com)
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 14:44:00 GMT-3
Here is the complete list of April 1st RFC's.
http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/9083
And you thought you where bored.
-Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "James" <james@towardex.com>
To: "Tom Martin" <tig@wiltecinc.com>
Cc: <joedeleonardo@cox.net>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: RFC
> 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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