David W. Hankins wrote: > as recently as the IETF 69 tech plenary, > where we were told that firewalls were becoming obsolete, evidenced by > their lack of use at IETF meetings. > > There's only one word for it: Astounding. Told by whom? I was one of the people at the the microphone. I work for a firewall vendor, and I asked a question (probably rhetorical) of the IAB. > I have never, until now, heard the contrary fallacy attempted. That > is, "because we did X at an IETF meeting and it did not work > allright, it is therefore insufficient for the Internet." > > That's a new one on me. > > Clever, but wrong: networks much larger than 1,200 laptops use DHCPv4 > on a daily basis all over the Internet without similar symptoms. Start by asking the contractor, the volunteers and the IAD for a postmortem on the operation of the network. anything else is just speculation. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf