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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: zero window probes on linux (fwd)
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:41:06 +0200
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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