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Re: [tcpm] New Version Notification for draft-touch-tcpm-tcp-edo-01.txt

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Mon, 05 May 2014 15:58 UTC

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On 5/5/2014 7:41 AM, John Leslie wrote:
>> However, most NATs have a passive FTP mode - which means they will
>> >look through the TCP payload for the host's IP address and rewrite
>> >with their own.
 >
>     (That's one of the reasons I prefer to have "Data Offset" be a clearly
> invalid value whenever it is overridden by EDO: any middlebox will then
> have fair warning that it is clueless.)

It had that warning when it saw the EDO option and decided that it could 
ignore it quietly.

Joe

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