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Am Mit, 2002-02-06 um 17.45 schrieb Matti Aarnio:

>   Can't.  COMPAQ is one of those companies which have covered their
> incoming email systems with firewalls rejecting connections with IP-
> header option bits that were "reserved, set to zero when sending" for
> first about 20 years, but which now got other specification.
> (The firewall makers made an error and tought it to mean: "reserved,
>  must forever be zero".)

I had been once behind one of their firewalls and it's like hell on
earth; Even trivial actions like ssh'ing somewhere or getting the
kernel sources caused problems. Maybe Compaq should reconsider their
security policy and work more with Linux instead of Windows to get a
clue.

-- 
Servus,
       Daniel

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