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|    Jorgen Grahn to Bob    |
|    Re: Avaya Embedded Configuration Protoco    |
|    06 May 13 09:32:26    |
      From: grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se              On Mon, 2013-05-06, Bob wrote:       ...       > Here's the kicker. All 14 cameras start kicking out malformed packets in the       > av-emb-config protocol at the same time. The firewall - from what I've       > found, will consider it an attack and obviously reboots and knocks down the       > network for a few minutes, then restores operation.              I don't administer firewalls, but I find it unlikely that a firewall's       correct response to a perceived attack is to reboot. Not only does it       hurt valid traffic: it makes it forget about the "attack", so that it       reboots again when it persists. IMHO this is what you should look       into rather than those broadcast packets.              /Jorgen              --        // Jorgen Grahn |
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