FW: [sclug] Firewalls

[Rick Payne]

--On Wednesday, January 15, 2003 16:13:31 +0000 Tom Dawes-Gamble 
<tmdg at hp.com> wrote:

> I'm not that up to the mark on the good old seven layer model and all
> that jazz. Or exactly what layers are what in the TCP/IP stuff.  SO I
> find it difficult to explain.  IMVHO.  If ftp is transmitting IP addresses
> and port numbers in the data part thats a bit wrong.

Yes - but it was doing it before it was deigned to be wrong, so it gets 
away with it. One day, though, ftp shall be killed.

Now, as for the designed-by-comittee stupidity that is H.323. They *really* 
should have known better.

Rick