Re: 1.3.97: ircd

lilo (TaRDiS@mail.utexas.edu)
Wed, 8 May 1996 21:09:35 -0500 (CDT)


On Tue, 7 May 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Could you who see this problem check out 1.3.99 - I think I fixed the TCP
> window handling problem that resulted in problems for irc over localhost. Ie
> with 1.3.99, it should be possible to run irc locally _without_ the MTU hack or
> any modifications to irc..
>
> Alan, I never got any feedback on my suggested fix, so I just went ahead and
> did it, and it did fix the problem that I saw with my silly test-program..

Odd. On 1.3.99, I'm getting `network is unreachable', even though the MTU is set
to 552 for the lo interface. Well, it's different.

lilo