From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Praveen Kumar Amritaluru <praveen@india.hp.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: zero window probes on linux (fwd)
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:41:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040414134106.3f36c629.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200404140857.OAA03903@shilpa.india.hp.com>
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:27:09 +0530 (IST)
Praveen Kumar Amritaluru <praveen@india.hp.com> wrote:
> > > This seems to be a bug. Has it been already fixed in later
> > > kernel versions or is this how it is intended to remain?
> >
> > iirc this was intentional. The RFC suggested method doesn't work when talking to
> > some stacks.
> >
>
> But that cannot be valid enough justification for doing
> something against RFC right?
Of course it is. Welcome to the real world. RFC1122 has a lot of bugs and sometimes
does not describe really implemented practice (e.g. BSD set the defacto standard
in many behaviours and it does not always follow 1122)
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-14 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-13 10:13 zero window probes on linux (fwd) Praveen Kumar Amritaluru
2004-04-13 18:50 ` Andi Kleen
2004-04-14 8:57 ` Praveen Kumar Amritaluru
2004-04-14 11:41 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-04-14 12:05 ` Praveen Kumar Amritaluru
2004-04-14 12:10 ` Andi Kleen
2004-04-14 12:26 ` Praveen Kumar Amritaluru
2004-04-15 13:20 ` Praveen Kumar Amritaluru
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