Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 14:45:14 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Cc: terry@lambert.org, adam@veda.is, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows TCP/IP interoperability? Message-ID: <199601192145.OAA08703@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199601190821.JAA02867@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Jan 19, 96 09:20:59 am
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> > There is also a known problem with Windows NT boxes illegally generating > > RIP packets and causing other hosts to dump. This is fixed in the > > latest release of NT, or a patch is available through MSN. Have you > > recently added an NT machine to a previously functional network? > > > Is this what has been reported a year ago (by Keith B.) as the so called > 'sniper bug' ? Yes. It's really a problem when you have an older MS/TCP listening to the bogus RIP broadcasts and using them to preeemptively dump connections. The problems are synergistic. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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