Evil Bit Added to TCP/IP Packets 319
Absolut Ralts notes that "
RFC 3514 is now
available. It provides for an additional so called 'Evil Bit' that can be
used to determine the nature of the TCP/IP packet. This should vastly simplify networking and internet security, and prevent the beepers of tired sysadmins from going off and interfering with Warcraft III!"
Three times!? (Score:1, Funny)
Clever (Score:5, Funny)
Very clever.
And you would have gotten away with it too! Had it not been for those meddlesome kids.
Hmmmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
Had me. (Score:4, Funny)
I hope this slashdotting of slashdot is not a joke! Don't mess with my information drip!
April Fool's Day (Score:4, Funny)
Hoo Hah (Score:5, Funny)
Aaarrrgggghhhh!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Wow, Taco! (Score:3, Funny)
That takes talent!
Wrong day! (Score:3, Funny)
Get it right, Taco.
dupe the comments too... :) (Score:5, Funny)
Re: RFC 3514 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This story must be real... (Score:5, Funny)
Wow (Score:2, Funny)
Incidentally, shouldn't these jokes be funny? Jeesh.
New Slashdot RFC (Score:5, Funny)
--LP
story posted in triplicate (Score:3, Funny)
"Hey Mr. Taco, this story appears three times on the homepage, being attributed twice to you as a poster."
"Yes, I know. April fool! Hahahah!"
"I want to laugh and feel caught out by the joke, but I'm finding it difficult to derive humour from it."
"That's because it was a genuine mistake! hahhah! April Fool!"
"It's still not funny. You're not getting out that easily."
"..."
Re:Triple duping, now? (Score:3, Funny)
(groan!)
--Azaroth
I'm starting to detect a theme... (Score:3, Funny)
Slashdot appreciation day (Score:5, Funny)
reminds me of the time when (Score:5, Funny)
*sigh*. I was going to leave it at that, but the
Re:If you say it ofter enough... (Score:3, Funny)
If you say it often enough, it will become funny. Just like CowboyNeal.
If you say it often enough, it will become funny. Just like CowboyNeal.
If you say it often enough, it will become funny. Just like CowboyNeal.
If you say it often enough, it will become funny. Just like CowboyNeal.
Hmmm, I don't think so....
Already the third "evil bit"! Great work! (Score:3, Funny)
OK, as I have understood from all the reports today, this is the third "evil bit" added to the Internet Protocol.
Using all these three bits together, it is now possible to express 2^3 = 8 different levels of evilness, ranging from 000 = "not an evil datagram at all" to 111 = "a more evil datagram than anything you can imagine". And yesterday we had no means of indicating the degree of evilness in a datagram at all! Talk about progress!
Firewall (Score:4, Funny)
it does require a patch, but it's integrated in the statefull module of ipchains.
example: iptables -A INPUT -m state --state EVIL -j DROP
Re:Clever (Score:4, Funny)
I'd prefer to put it on the grill. Maybe that new iGrill?
mmm, hot dog...