From: Praveen Kumar Amritaluru <praveen@india.hp.com>
To: ak@suse.de
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: zero window probes on linux (fwd)
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:35:33 +0530 (IST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200404141205.RAA06111@shilpa.india.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040414134106.3f36c629.ak@suse.de> from Andi Kleen at Apr "14," 2004 "01:41:06" pm
Andi,
> > > > 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)
So do u consider mandating definition of zero-window probes as defined
in RFC793 as a bug in RFC1122?
Or else r u saying this bug is introduced in linux to take care of
faulty stacks existing in the world. zero-window probes as defined
in RFC1122 is not buggy right?
-Praveen
>
> -Andi
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-14 12:05 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
2004-04-14 12:05 ` Praveen Kumar Amritaluru [this message]
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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