From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
Cc: James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:38:55 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0101281335350.24762-100000@shell.cyberus.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200101281823.TAA06080@cave.bitwizard.nl>
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> > This would have been easier. The firewall operators were not
> > provided with this option. This is hard-coded. I agree with the rest
> > of your message.
>
> Take "configure" with a bit of liberty. Because the firewall vendor
> chose to hard-code this into the firmware. "configuring" in this case
> means reconfiguring new software on the firewall. Blame the vendor.
Perhaps the most famous writting on protocol design was by Jon Postel.
Interestingly in RFC 793 (Section 2.10)
" be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from
others."
That should be the mantra.
There is no librety when you hard-code.
cheers,
jamal
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-28 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-28 0:14 jamal
2001-01-28 8:56 ` James Sutherland
2001-01-28 12:18 ` jamal
2001-01-28 13:29 ` James Sutherland
2001-01-28 14:34 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-01-28 16:44 ` James Sutherland
2001-01-29 7:32 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-29 12:30 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-29 18:31 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-29 19:02 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2001-01-29 19:27 ` George
2001-01-29 19:59 ` Alex Pennace
2001-01-28 14:54 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-28 16:15 ` jamal
2001-01-28 17:11 ` James Sutherland
2001-01-28 18:07 ` jamal
2001-01-28 20:13 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-29 2:58 ` David Lang
2001-01-29 7:20 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-28 19:42 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-29 0:14 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-01-31 18:02 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-03 16:51 ` Michael H. Warfield
2001-01-29 12:57 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-01-28 17:39 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-01-28 18:01 ` Graham Murray
2001-01-28 18:08 ` jamal
2001-01-28 18:23 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-01-28 18:38 ` jamal [this message]
2001-01-28 20:18 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-28 21:33 ` ECN fixes for Cisco gear Dax Kelson
2001-01-28 22:09 ` ECN connectivity surveys Dax Kelson
2001-01-28 21:45 ` ECN fixes for Cisco gear Lincoln Dale
2001-01-28 14:04 ` ECN: Clearing the air (fwd) Ben Ford
2001-01-28 14:09 ` James Sutherland
2001-01-28 15:38 ` Ben Ford
2001-01-28 19:55 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-28 19:45 ` Gregory Maxwell
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=Pine.GSO.4.30.0101281335350.24762-100000@shell.cyberus.ca \
--to=hadi@cyberus.ca \
--cc=R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl \
--cc=jas88@cam.ac.uk \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®