Re: FTP bug?

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have noticed that FTP sends an IP packet with TOS field == 16 :
> after the initial 3-way handshake of TCP - right when trying to send the
> username
> packet, it sends it on an IP packet with TOS of 16, and as far as I know
> the TOS field is not used anymore.
> Please let me know if it is really a bug.
> 
> ERan,
> Software Developer
> @V-secure

Note that the address is address@hidden
You did not say either the version nor the OS.

But no, this is not a bug, inet utilities like rlogind telnetd and ftpd
set TOS to be LOWDELAY, for transaction.  ftpd resets it to THROUGHPUT
when dowloading files.

If you are running an older version of the utilities please
consider looking at one of the snapshots or at least investigate
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/cvs

They only been tested on GNU/Linux but they have some improvements
security wise that you should consider.

-- 
au revoir, alain
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