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Museum Of Broken Packets
hobbicik writes: "Quote from the page: 'The purpose of this museum is to provide a shelter for strange, unwanted, malformed packets - abandoned and doomed freaks of nature - as we, mere mortals, meet them on twisted paths of our grand journey called life.'" Interesting and amusing idea. Most of the wasted packets I get are IIS worm attempts -- not nearly as interesting.
Well, there are stranger "museums" out there. At least it's not a museum of modern art.
...my boss would consider packets all of the packets routed to slashdot by me when I was meant to be working as "strange, unwanted and malformed". ;)
Taffyd.
Surely we now need a `Museum of shoddy half-assed software which passes junk as validly formed data`?
Faster than a speeding packet,
More powerful than a triple Mocha,
Able to leap Full Towers in a single bound,
Look behind the window!
It's a boot disk!
No! It's a packet!
No! It's a...OOooo, shiney object!
If it is not on fire, it is a software problem.
Is the going to be special place for packets going to port 139?
One thing is that I immediately think "IP" when I read "packets". But why did I have to misread "twisted paths" as "twisted pair"?
One cannot comprehend the mind-boggling amounts of spare time required to devote part of one's life to this.
What's next, a repository of images of free-form dust patterns from monitor screens?
Ignorance is the root of all evil.
Nowadays you get a malformed packet, and they'll call the FBI thinking there's anthrax in it.
OOps, wrong kind of packet.
means that it's the packet capture utility that's hosed, not the packets. :)
Anybody else thought this would be a sequel to this?
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
In a stunning move to corner one of the oldest markets in networking, Microsoft has patented the concept of a broken packet. Many router manufacturers may come under litigation if they do not pay the licensing fees.
I hope the Museum of Broken Packets can adequately catalog its own slashdotting.
Skiers and Riders -- http://www.snowjournal.com
As more implementations appeared on the Internet, I'd get more junk packets, and would E-mail back the packet source telling them how their protocol stack was broken.
Argh, here he is.. the first net-cop!
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