Re: COmpare Firewalls

[Robert Graham <robert_david_graham () yahoo com>]

--- Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au> wrote:
> Doesn't the fact that the various Microsoft products all seem to have
> problems with fragmentation ring any bells in people's heads about *bad*
> IP implementation ?  Seems to me like they push the defragmentation *up*
> a layer (probably for some perceived speed advantage) and in doing so
> have created the `same' problem in each of your TCP, UDP, ICMP, IGMP, etc,
> rather than just once in IP.

Linus chose a monolithic kernel over a layered kernel. I don't begrudge
Microsoft making the same choices with its TCP/IP stack. I'm at a complete loss
as too why this bug should appear, but I wouldn't call this a "bad"
implementation. I've got a design in my head for a wicked-fast caching
web-server that combines a TCP-stack with the HTTP protocol in a monolithic
module, so I can see lots of reasons why Microsoft would want to do similar
things.




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