Re: Linux TCP/IP stack.

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Sun, 18 Jul 1999 11:54:47 -0500 (CDT)


On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> AFAIK Linux 2.0.x (x<36 or so) has only one actual tcp protocol violation
> that was fixed about 2.0.36. Thats an obscure rule about reserved bits always
> being set to zero that can only be triggered by the other end violating the
> spec (legitimately if running some experimental research work).

Funny thing is that the folks complaining about the choice to use Linux on
the Amiga would apparently prefer QNX. The last two releases of QNX can't
even handle subnet masks that aren't a multiple of 8 bits. Must not have
seen very much Internet deployment in the past 10 years..

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