Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:21:16 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: walton@nordicrecords.com Cc: geoffr@is.co.za, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting up -STABLE for hack contest Message-ID: <199908240221.TAA15551@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 17:44:47 -0700
"Dave Walton" <walton@nordicrecords.com> wrote:
> Hm, just did that. While reading up on nmap, I saw this:
>
> "TCP Initial Window -- This simply involves checking the window
> size on returned packets. [...] In their "completely rewritten"
> TCP stack for NT5, Microsoft uses 0x402E. Interestingly, that is
> exactly the number used by OpenBSD and FreeBSD."
>
> Gee, I wonder how that happened...
It's not "interesting" at all. Lots of systems default to a 16k
receive window.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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