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RFC 4540
Title: NEC's Simple Middlebox Configuration (SIMCO)
Protocol Version 3.0
Author: M. Stiemerling, J. Quittek,
C. Cadar
Status: Experimental
Date: May 2006
Mailbox: stiemerling@netlab.nec.de,
quittek@netlab.nec.de,
ccadar2@yahoo.com
Pages: 67
Characters: 152685
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-stiemerling-midcom-simco-08.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4540.txt
This document describes a protocol for controlling middleboxes such as
firewalls and network address translators. It is a fully compliant
implementation of the Middlebox Communications (MIDCOM) semantics
described in RFC 3989. Compared to earlier experimental versions of
the SIMCO protocol, this version (3.0) uses binary message encodings in
order to reduce resource requirements. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
EXPERIMENTAL: This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
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