From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 15 9:22: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 246E837B403 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:21:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5FGIQs27241; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:18:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B2A35E7.E4094206@iowna.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:20:55 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Rescorla Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Justification for using FreeBSD References: <200106151613.JAA27845@romeo.rtfm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eric Rescorla wrote: > > > I beg to differ. > > DHCP standards say that a machine that reconnects requests that it be > > reassigned the IP it had prior to disconnecting. If the IP is still > > available, the server should reassign the same IP. Thus, if you're only > > disconnected for a few minutes, the chances are very good that you'll > > get the same IP and the transmission will complete. > My experience differs from you. I almost enver get the same IP > address and hence this doesn't work. And your point is? Regardless of whether or not you get the same IP, TCP is still a reliable protocol and aborting a connection just because a physical link goes down for a few minutes is still a violation of that protocol. Period. -Bill -- If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then what can I get for two hands in the bush? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message