From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757120AbXKERGY (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2007 12:06:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754731AbXKERGM (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2007 12:06:12 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:59456 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754753AbXKERGK (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2007 12:06:10 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:05:46 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Pietikainen Subject: [2.6 patch] remove Documentation/networking/ncsa-telnet Message-ID: <20071105170546.GS12045@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Newsflash: There once was a version of NCSA telnet that had some bug. Spotted by Pekka Pietikainen. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- Documentation/networking/00-INDEX | 2 -- Documentation/networking/ncsa-telnet | 16 ---------------- 2 files changed, 18 deletions(-) b9ccc5424cc83b4c0ca9c8d380a4b7567916a463 diff --git a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX index a9f4acc..9c64042 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX @@ -74,8 +74,6 @@ ltpc.txt - the Apple or Farallon LocalTalk PC card driver multicast.txt - Behaviour of cards under Multicast -ncsa-telnet - - notes on how NCSA telnet (DOS) breaks with MTU discovery enabled. netdevices.txt - info on network device driver functions exported to the kernel. olympic.txt diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ncsa-telnet b/Documentation/networking/ncsa-telnet deleted file mode 100644 index d77d28b..0000000 --- a/Documentation/networking/ncsa-telnet +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -NCSA telnet doesn't work with path MTU discovery enabled. This is due to a -bug in NCSA that also stops it working with other modern networking code -such as Solaris. - -The following information is courtesy of -Marek - -There is a fixed version somewhere on ftp.upe.ac.za (sorry, I don't -remember the exact pathname, and this site is very slow from here). -It may or may not be faster for you to get it from -ftp://ftp.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/pub/msdos/telnet/ncsa_upe/tel23074.zip -(source is in v230704s.zip). I have tested it with 1.3.79 (with -path mtu discovery enabled - ncsa 2.3.08 didn't work) and it seems -to work. I don't know if anyone is working on this code - this -version is over a year old. Too bad - it's faster and often more -stable than these windoze telnets, and runs on almost anything...