Good ideas...I could also slightly modify apache by layering something over at the source level that supports a specialised set of protocols. There is another motivation I didn't mention yet: to try and make a protocol specific to certain types of traffic rather than have just the ridiculously generic http versus the sublimely specific ftp to choose from. Actually I did look at the list of non-internet protocols at the same level and tty looked the best although it has been sort of butchered over to ftp. i still don;t know what is doing that yet -- the browser or the server.

Update: Just one nit I noticed: It appears to my naive mind that there is a difference in denial-effect between a firewall listening and nothing listening to a port. If N bits/s are thrown at a port which doesn't have any listener, zero bits get sieved per second whereas if the firewall is listening it sieves the N bits per second and impacts system resources. Or am I wrong?

-M

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In reply to Re^6: How to implement a fourth protocol by Moron
in thread How to implement a fourth protocol by Moron

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