Everyone laughed because "raw sockets" is not a real problem. *nix
systems have had the ability to generate raw sockets for years. Things
like clustering and VRRP depend on the ability to generate packets that
appear to come from virtualized (or spoofed!) IP addresses.
Bill Cohane wrote:
At 13:49 01/20/06, Ben Ruset wrote:
I'm still waiting for the internet to break like Steve Gibson said it
would when Windows 2000 was released.
Gibson warned about the inclusion of "raw sockets" in Win2k. Everyone
laughed.
Since then, Microsoft has quietly eliminated the raw sockets with
patches. To
his credit, Gibson never made a big deal about their elimination.
Regards,
Bill
