[OpenAFS] ICMP packets

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:13:31 -0500 (EST)


kaserver doesn't talk krb5, so that's no shock.

what's trying to do krb5?

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, ted creedon wrote:

> Thanks for the lead on Bellovin's book.
>
> I'm getting an "ERROR: Problem at version: wrong type for that item" on port
> 88 (KRB5). ICMP is not involved. I'm using kaserver.
>
> Other than that everything seems to be working fine.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openafs-info-admin@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org]
> On Behalf Of Garance A Drosihn
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:49 AM
> To: Derek Atkins; Derrick J Brashear
> Cc: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] ICMP packets
>
> At 12:17 AM -0500 3/18/04, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:
> >
> >>>  Normally a firewall would drop pings.
> >>
> >>  Only if you configure them to.
> >
> >And such a firewall is configured incorrectly.
>
> However, some firewwalls are configured to "throttle" ICMP packets,
> as a safeguard to various DOS problems that pop up.  In that case,
> it's hard to argue that they are configured "wrong"...  By "hard
> to argue", I mean I can talk until I'm blue in the face, but the
> person responsible for the firewall is not going to change anything.
>
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