IPv4 Headers Investigated

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 1, 2003 @06:09AM from the that-makes-a-lot-of-sense dept.

An anonymous reader writes "New security measures are being suggested (see RFC 3514) for the IPv4 header. The measures include a bit that can be set and unset according to whether the packet is secure or not. Due to the important security implications, anyone coding client/server internet applications might want to take a look."

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Jeez by abh · 2003-04-01 06:11 · Score: 4, Informative

April Fool's or not, this may be a record for a duplicate... the previous story was a whole THREE entries below this one on the homepage...
1. Re:Jeez by jkujawa · 2003-04-01 06:17 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  This is beginning to remind me of that fat kid in school who only knew one joke, and kept repeating it ALL THE GODDAMNED TIME.
  
  You know him. He was at your school, too.
2. Re:Jeez by TheMidget · 2003-04-01 06:28 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Jokes are supposed to be funny.
  Different people have different sense of humor. You are not a true slashgeek if you don't find these intentional quadrupes funny... kinda like a self-parody of Slash... ;-)
  Personnally, I find this year's April fool's much better then previous years', when most stories were just senseless drivel. This year's stories are believable enough that people could fall for them (just watch some of the comments that think this quadrupe was unintentional. In my book, that's falling for it. Of course some of these comments might just have pretended to be falling for it, in order to take in people like me ;-). And there's still enough serious stories there that people cannot just blindly assume everything is a hoax either.
3. Re:Jeez by YrWrstNtmr · 2003-04-01 06:30 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Yes he was.
  
  Have you learned any new ones yet?
4. Re:Jeez by lactose99 · 2003-04-01 06:43 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Never met that kid at my high school.
  
  Oh, and did you hear about the new RFC for new security measures in IPv4?
  
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Wish I had known about this earlier. by gristlebud · 2003-04-01 06:12 · Score: 3, Funny

Why am I always the last to know about these things. I try and keep up to date about technology matters, but I've missed out on this. I wish that I could have seen this one coming.

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Re:Fourth post! by Lxy · 2003-04-01 06:12 · Score: 4, Funny

qupe!

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Anticipation is making me wait by fobbman · 2003-04-01 06:12 · Score: 5, Funny

It's April 1st. I wonder if Taco's gonna do anything out of the ordinary today for April Fool's Day?
1. Re:Anticipation is making me wait by Iamthefallen · 2003-04-01 06:27 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Obviously you're not paying attention, he did something out of the ordinary in this one: There are no spelling errors!
  
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In other news... by generic-man · 2003-04-01 06:12 · Score: 3, Funny

Microsoft have released a beowulf distro. Linus has joined redhat. Slackware is closing down. Linux now runs on single entangled electrons at MIT etc etc etc

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Related news... by carl67lp · 2003-04-01 06:13 · Score: 5, Funny

I read somewhere today that there's a new RFC out regarding IP header bits--you can set and unset a particular bit to determine the packet's overall security. I haven't seen it linked anywhere yet, and I'm considering sending it in to the editors, but I can't find their address.

This is something I think they'd be very interested in.
RFC 1315 by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-01 06:13 · Score: 4, Funny

We need a new flag implemented into the Slashdot system that will indicate whether or not the story is a dupe. It can be preset to DUPE=1 to save everyone trouble.
What is scariest by abh · 2003-04-01 06:18 · Score: 3, Funny

Is that there's a bunch of duplicate stories, and people can't tell if it's April Fools, or just business as usual...
Re:Is the joke that this is a four-peat? by Anonvmous+Coward · 2003-04-01 06:21 · Score: 5, Insightful

"This is the fourth time I have seen this story.

It is getting less and less funny."

Perhaps if y'all didn't act like Slashdot commited a mortal sin whenever the occasional dupe occured, Taco wouldn't have found this joke so amusing. Mmmm?

Frankly I think it's hilarious. I hope you all have learned a lesson now. Stop bitching about story dupes or this joke'll be around next year too.
Re:God Dammit! by ackthpt · 2003-04-01 06:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Not a 4th time!
You don't see the pattern here?
Story
Story
Dup Evil bit
Story
Story
Dup Evil bit
It'll be pretty much like this all day, today. And people were annoyed with the plethora of Apr. 1 gags last year. The Peter Jackson/King Kong is real, afaik, as it's been in the news the prior couple days. (How did that one slip through?)
In other news:
Warner Studios has anounced further sequels to it's popular film The Matrix. Sequels will be titled: The Matrix Transposed, The Matrix Inverted, The Matrix Rotated, The Matrix Scaled, The Matrix Translated, The Matrix Identity and finally The Matrix Determinant. After the full run of Matrix films an anonymous source has indicated the studio has expressed interest in a series based upon Sine, Cosine and Tangent, with options on Secant, Cosecant, Arcsine, etc. if interest persists.

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Someone told taco to do this back in FEBRUARY: by Vengie · 2003-04-01 06:34 · Score: 5, Informative

And i have proof!
hehe

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Sing it with me now... by Pollux · 2003-04-01 06:42 · Score: 4, Funny

"This is the post that doesn't end,
yes it goes on and on my friends.
Ol' Taco started posting it, not knowing what it was,
And he'll continue posting it forever just because,

This is the post that doesn't end,
yes it goes on and on my friends..."
Re:uh by Exedore · 2003-04-01 06:45 · Score: 4, Funny

Tripes and quadrupes are new though.

I don't know about quadrupes, but they do post tripe rather frequently.

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modern methods to the rescue by iggymanz · 2003-04-01 10:34 · Score: 3, Interesting

I'm employing a Full Software Development Life Cycle Methodology (FSDLCM) with Extreme Programming to modify my TCP stack for an Evil Bit Payload Control System(EBPCS). Using the latest Rational Tools I've already made several lengthy iterations on a UML modeling with advanced design patterns including the Inactive Observer and Simpleton Factory. The enabling features of Rational Rose groupware has empowered everyone from marketing to sales and janitorial staff to participate and pool their synergism in the IT architectural process. ~