From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Nov 13 15:53:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA26595 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:53:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA26581; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:53:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA02308; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 16:52:42 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 16:52:42 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199611132352.QAA02308@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Jason Thorpe Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/2003: Finger does not work with many systems In-Reply-To: <199611132316.PAA10135@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> References: <199611132316.PAA10135@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jason Thorpe writes: > On Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:24:12 -0800 > "Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > > > Actually, FreeBSD finger is a TTCP app and is probably showing that, at least > > the version of Linux running on those machines, does not have an RFC > > compliant > > TCP stack. You can disable the use of TTCP with the -T finger option. > > Eww. Rather backwards, isn't it? Shouldn't the FreeBSD finger be > compatible by default? Seems like the T/TCP code should be _enabled_ > using -T... TTCP is *compatible*. If Linux's stack were compliant then we wouldn't be having these problems. But, we allow you to enable 'backward compatability' by using a flag. If we always preferred backward compatability we'd still be using trailers in TCP/IP. :) Nate