Re: Please add me to the kernel change distribution list

Daniel Egger (degger@fhm.edu)
06 Feb 2002 20:49:48 +0100


Am Mit, 2002-02-06 um 17.45 schrieb Matti Aarnio:

> Can't. COMPAQ is one of those companies which have covered their
> incoming email systems with firewalls rejecting connections with IP-
> header option bits that were "reserved, set to zero when sending" for
> first about 20 years, but which now got other specification.
> (The firewall makers made an error and tought it to mean: "reserved,
> must forever be zero".)

I had been once behind one of their firewalls and it's like hell on
earth; Even trivial actions like ssh'ing somewhere or getting the
kernel sources caused problems. Maybe Compaq should reconsider their
security policy and work more with Linux instead of Windows to get a
clue.

-- 
Servus,
       Daniel

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