On Sunday 03 November 2002 21:35, you wrote:
> Q. What is isclap?
>
> It apparently is the Indian Script Code for Language Paging, related also
> to the Indian Script Code for Information Interchange.
Aha.
>
> The number of bytes in a syllable is not linearly related to the number
> of glyphs required to represent it on screen [1]. Unlike Western alphabets
> where each glyph (letter) has a 1 to 1 correlation with the number of bytes
> needed to transmit it.
>
> The glyph of an Indian language is composed of more than one element
> as it is created electronically, and this is done at runtime. An editor
> must keep
> track of the number of bytes of each syllable, and handle, at the glyph
> level,
> the number of glyphs forming a syllable.
>
> (If you have seen Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Devanagari etc with the complex
> manner in which letters are assembled, this will be clearer).
Yes, I am familiar with gujarati, hindi, pali etc. I don't think devanagari is
used except in hindu scriptures to express the sanskrit language.
>
> Indix have created binaries on RedHat 7.1 with glibc 2.2.2 that run
> on XFree86 to render these characters. Details at the cited site, below.
>
> I did not find anything here that specifically links this port assignment
> to this
> data type but it seems fairly likely that this port assignment is
> intended to handle doublebyte character transmission of this data type
> between machines. The fact that you are seeing this port on a firewall
> log over here indicates a good lilkelihood (to me) that some hacker just
> appropriated that port number for random garbage transmission.
> IMHO anyway. Bob Foxworth
> [1] http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix/
Interesting. I have seen quite a bit ofport scanning looking for this port.
>
>
> Subject: [SLUG] Information on packet type
>
> > my firewall is receiving packets on port 2869 with the designation of
>
> isclap.
>
> > Anyone know what this means, isclap?
> > Smitty
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