Re: Fragment Reassembly and "Wormhole Routing" for pf

2003-07-15 Thread Kyle R. Hofmann
rrent ssh implementation which does not have a fix for this; it should no longer be possible to tell what's a password and what isn't. See the references. -- Kyle R. Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Fragment Reassembly and "Wormhole Routing" for pf

2003-07-14 Thread Kyle R. Hofmann
s are supposed to be protected. While the prospect of reducing latency is nice, I don't think the potential vulnerabilities make this a good idea. -- Kyle R. Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: pf/altq on a fast link

2003-06-06 Thread Kyle R. Hofmann
t. I will also direct them to the pf archives, so they can read your words for themselves. I would like to say I am sorry that my only contact with Emerging Technologies, Inc. has been so disappointing. Yours Sincerely, Kyle R. Hofmann

Re: matching

2003-04-12 Thread Kyle R. Hofmann
that O ignores is much smaller. This is really a shortcoming of O notation; it's easier to understand a comparison like this when you try to work out rough running times using each bound. -- Kyle R. Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: pf(4) schemantics

2003-03-20 Thread Kyle R. Hofmann
| |_< / ( ) ( ( ) ) (( ) )).) ((/ | ( | \( )) ((. ). <_\\__\__(___)_))_((_())__(_(___.oooO_Oooo.(_(_)_)((_ HAND, HTH. (ASCII art courtesy of someone else) (And, more seriously, I suggest that you read the source. Then it should be clear why pf works as it does.) -- Kyle R. Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: altq, ssh, and tos

2002-12-22 Thread Kyle R. Hofmann
is not matched. scp and sftp don't set tos early, either. It seems to me that ssh is not doing the right thing here; it should determine the type of service that it will use and set it before it sends the first SYN. -- Kyle R. Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Scrub and fragments

2002-11-19 Thread Kyle R. Hofmann
in what you send" rule implies that you should accept fragments with DF set, but the potential for a host system to misinterpret such datagrams makes me unwilling to agree. -- Kyle R. Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: fully transparent ftp-proxy?

2002-10-31 Thread Kyle R. Hofmann
l children, but that should still be O(n). You lose skip steps with such a case, though, so performance would be worse than it is now. But it feels to me like it should be possible to avoid such a pathological case with good tree construction. -- Kyle R. Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>