From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 15 14:30:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA14766 for current-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 14:30:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.COSC.GOV (root@apollo.COSC.GOV [198.94.103.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA14757 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 14:30:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from vince@localhost) by apollo.COSC.GOV (8.7.3/8.6.9) id OAA12195; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 14:30:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 14:30:37 -0800 (PST) From: -Vince- To: "Garrett A. Wollman" cc: Robert Sanders , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: finger problem going from 2.1R to -current In-Reply-To: <9601152129.AA11297@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Garrett A. Wollman wrote: > > TCP extensions just seem to cause trouble for > > the Average Joe. > > I doubt it. In any case, somebody has to keep the commercial vendors > honest. The correct response to this problem is to complain to the > vendors who made the broken software. (You might point them at an > RFC---I forget its number---entitled ``TCP and IP bake-off''.) That should be the correct way to do it since it's the other vendors who has it broken and not FreeBSD for sure since it's AIX we're talking about here and AIX isn't exactly well written... Cheers, -Vince- vince@COSC.GOV - GUS Mailing Lists Admin - http://www.COSC.GOV/~vince UC Berkeley AstroPhysics - Electrical Engineering (Honorary B.S.) Chabot Observatory & Science Center - Board of Advisors Running FreeBSD - Real UN*X for Free! Linda Wong/Vivian Chow/Hacken Lee/Danny Chan/Priscilla Chan Fan Club Mailing Lists Admin