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Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 1996 11:39:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      -Vince- <vince@apollo.COSC.GOV>
To:        Andras Olah <olah@cs.utwente.nl>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, Adam Hawks <root@pent.vnet.net>
Subject:   Re: finger problem going from 2.1R to -current 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960115113835.20064f@apollo.COSC.GOV>
In-Reply-To: <1763.821695163@curie.cs.utwente.nl>

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On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Andras Olah wrote:

> I'm almost sure that the problems related to finger from current
> machines is caused by the use of T/TCP.  Apparently some (buggy or
> at least non-conformant) TCP stacks have problems with T/TCP.
> 
> The short term solution is: `sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1644=0'.  On
> the other hand, it would be very useful if you could send me a
> tcpdump trace of the failing conversation when using T/TCP and if
> you know the type of the system you're connecting to.

	My rfc1644 and rc1323 is already set to 0 since we have a Cisco 
router so that isn't the problem.  How do I do a tcpdump trace?  The 
thing is this only happens on any machine running IBM's AIX...

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