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To: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net rcmd.c 
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:42:40 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <200008101710.KAA18119@freefall.freebsd.org> Hajimu UMEMOTO writes:
:   It seems having delay before another try is useless.  However, I'm
:   not sure that delay means.  So, I leave it as-is.

The delay was, I was told years ago, inserted to give hosts that were
booting a chance to finish rather than failing a few times quickly.
Also, I think there was some thought that machines were slow and it
was best not to hammer them too quickly (something about back to back
packets on a VAX DEQNA sticks in my head, but that doesn't make any
sense to me now).

Warner


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