[AusNOG] RFC3514 The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header

[McDonald Richards]

I'm going to blame the fact that Sean's email was sent on April 1 and only
arrived in my inbox today for my slowness :)

Macca



-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Carter [mailto:matt at iseek.com.au] 
Sent: Tuesday, 6 April 2010 3:10 PM
To: 'McDonald Richards'; ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: RE: [AusNOG] RFC3514 The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header

> I've just come across this RFC, could anyone pls tell me if they have had 
> any success implementing it on their firewalls?
<...> 
> I think you'll find the documentation for it in the same place as their
> documentation for RFC5575 (Hint: it's not in IOS at all).
> 
> Just because it's RFC and a good idea doesn't mean the vendors will
> implement :(

Recycled April fools joke maybe? :)

From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net On Behalf Of Sean K. Finn
Sent: Thursday, 1 April 2010 6:27 PM
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_RFC

Almost every April Fools' Day (1 April) since 1989, the Internet Engineering
Task Force has published one or more humorous RFC documents, following in
the path blazed by the June 1973 RFC 527 entitled ARPAWOCKY, which parodied
Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem Jabberwocky. The following list also includes
humorous RFCs published on other dates.

2003
    * S. Bellovin (1 April 2003). The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header (Evil
Bit). RFC 3514. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514.

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