Re: [FW1] Scary traffic - long

[roger nebel <roger () homecom com>]

RFC 1350 (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1350.txt) mentions nothing about
broadcast, perhaps that's a local implementation deviation by
someone...i'd be interested in how / where you've seen that use.  

Hendrik Visage wrote:
> AFAIK: Unfortunately, tftp DO have a broadcast "option", but it should be only in LAN
> context, it sends out the broadcast, and then all the tftpservers will check if they
> have the requested file, and then reply if they DO have the file.
>
> tftp is also "dangerous" in the sense that it's UDP, send out to a port, and the
> server sends out via another port. Not all that easy to have a stateful inspection
> code for tftp, and FW-1 doesn't handle it as "nicely" as "standard" ftp :((

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