Firewall Wizards: lack of imagination

["Alfonso Fiore" <afiore () secure-edge com>]

Hi everybody! 

Some months ago I wrote on this list about a flaw in a well known personal 
firewall. 

Now I'm writing an article on that matter to report it. IMHO I was asked for 
a huge amount of pages for such a thing (just a bug explained in 100 lines) 
so I have to start from Adam and Eva (TCP/IP speaking). 

Here comes my question. 

Could somebody take a minute to advice me on other topics might eventually 
fit such an article?
chapter 1: firewall history
chapter 2: TCP/IP protocol (addresses, ports), TCP/IP headers, three way 
handshake, packet flags, sniffing, portscanning
chapter 3: i/o from tools I used to discover the bug 

Any pointer to any whitepaper freely available would also be greatly 
appreciated. 

TIA for any idea, 

alfonso 

ps. please don't advice me to discuss with the one asking me for this. I 
already tried. 

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