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Re: Additional TPC/IP stack
From: Jyri Kaljundi <jk () stallion ee>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 18:51:28 +0200 (EET)
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Franco RUGGIERI wrote:
Do you feel that such additional checking in an ad hoc IP stack is valuable?
Well Windows NT TCP/IP stack has probably had some security problems (like wrong reaction to OOB and other packets), and now that Milkyway has rewritten the whole NT TCP/IP stack for their firewall, at least they have said that there are other problems with it. So if you can, having a stack that has been written considering security is certainly better than what you get with any operating system. This is one thing you have to consider when choosing a fw product, but certainly having a robust and secure TCP stack only won't help so much when the OS itself is really buggy. Jyri Kaljundi jk () stallion ee AS Stallion Ltd http://www.stallion.ee/
Current thread:
- Additional TPC/IP stack Franco RUGGIERI (Nov 07)
- Re: Additional TPC/IP stack Marcus J. Ranum (Nov 07)
- Re: Additional TPC/IP stack Jyri Kaljundi (Nov 08)
- Re: Additional TPC/IP stack Darren Reed (Nov 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Additional TPC/IP stack Scott Wiegel (Nov 08)