Re: firewall-1's problem

[Tony Iannotti <tony @ fozzie . secapl . com>]

On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Paul D. Robertson wrote:

> You've _always_ been able to set packet size on *nix, by placing a
> packetsize after the host, and before the optional count.  The only
> difference is that Unix hosts have been limiting the ICMP datagram size,
> and NT/95 apparently allow impossible sizes.

Gotcha. I think there is actually a limit on NT/95 also, but it's so close
to the danger limit that the additional length provided by headers goes
over.