Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 22:31:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/396: telnetd problems fix. Message-ID: <199505140231.TAA19077@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <199505140147.SAA01094@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at May 13, 95 06:47:09 pm
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> >This is fixable by disabling -DLINEMODE for telnetd, this also seems to make
> >things feel more responsive. While it was pointed out that this will make
> >slower links (ppp) work slower, most folks using ppp are going to be doing s
> >with software that could be breaking on this, making the system unusable. I
> >would strongly suggest we disable -DLINEMODE as the default for the system.
> >Working slow is better than not working fast. We should do this for 2.0.5.
>
> I disagree, and we have been down this road at least 4 times in the
> last 2 years with FreeBSD. The bug is not in the FreeBSD code, it should
> not be bandaided to work with code that gets option negotiation wrong.
>
> I don't like to fix bugs in other software by making FreeBSD slower at
> *anything*. Go get NCSA and FTP software to fix there very ancient
> and broken code, they have had 2 years to do this, and still have not.
The problem is when users have to interact with FreeBSD boxes they bitch that
FreeBSD is broken, "afterall it works with Linnnuxxx". This is not good. Has
anyone actually done any real tests to see if its lots faster? I work on ppp
quite frequently and my system doesnt support LINEMODE and it doesnt feel bad
at all.
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/
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