der Mouse wrote:
> I would say that any attempt to use octets outside 0-127 on the wire is
> ill-advised at best.

ditto.
A non-standard partial solution that breaks half of the time is
not something that I would like to advertise as "new feature".

If there is a _real_ need for such a function, there should be a command
line option to fingerd and an appropriate section in the man page (that
recommends _not_ to use it).

This would hopefully keep everyone happy.

-- 
joerg klemenz <joerg@gmx.net>