On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:19:45PM +0200, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> ons, 2002-04-24 kl. 14:35 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> 
> > No, I *think* he meant post XP that it could have used UDP.
> 
> Let's wind this thing back a couple of messages.

:)

> Gibson's argument was that ICMP echo requests on raw (Unix) sockets were
> not possible with Windows 98 and below, since raw sockets weren't
> implemented on these OSs. So Microsoft fudged ICMP requests with (either
> UDP or) TCP.

Do you have a URL for details on how they did this?  I'd be interested to
know how you can "fudge" ICMP using UDP or TCP.

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> This is neither an anti-Gibson nor an anti-OS posting. What it is, is an
> attempt to clarify iptables rules.

Sorry, I jumped in too early and presumed the worst would occur - "my bad".

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