- From: <spreitze@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:43:04 PST
- To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
- Cc: ietf-http-ng@w3.org
> Firewalls rely on knowing where traffic is > going. A MUXed protocol is likely to require inspection of every byte to > do this, or at least, reconstruction of the stream, if it is to be > noticably different from using multiple connections. This will make > firewalling almost impossible in hardware, and resource-intensive in all > circumstances. My vision of the solution is essentially another layer of packetization. That is, fixed-length headers that include payload byte counts. This is the same story as appears at lower layers in the IP stack, and so should be no more difficult for a firewall to handle.
Received on Monday, 22 February 1999 14:43:33 UTC