netdev - Re: Passive OS fingerprinting.

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Date:	Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:44:36 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
CC:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Passive OS fingerprinting.

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> I for one would be much happier to only have netfilter as a user
>> of this :)
> 
> I'm not sure I understand?  When site A connects to site B via TCP, is 
> there a problem letting site A know the OS of site B?

No, I expressed myself very unclear, sorry :) I meant to say
that I would be happier to have netfilter as a user of some
generic infrastructure instead of having all of this implemented
as netfilter module.
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