[HECnet] DECnet over IP

[Sampsa Laine]

On 20 Jan 2016, at 15:51, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> 
> Well, yes, that is true. However, I doubt many would be clever enough to even know what they are doing.
> However, a more silly thing is just simple DOS attacks. If you connect to the multinet server, then the proper remote end cannot. Which is simple, not super harmful, but annoying...
> 

This problem has existed with for the bridge and Multinet tunnels since the beginning.

However I doubt most hackers would go through the trouble of learning the precise format of a DECNET packet encapsulated in UDP/TCP to insert malicious data into our network - we're just not valuable enough a goal..

Sampsa

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