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Date:      Fri, 26 Dec 1997 22:32:28 -0800
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I rather see the tcp/ip stack fixed than vat patched 
Message-ID:  <199712270632.WAA00277@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Dec 1997 05:56:04 %2B0100." <199712270456.FAA07646@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> 

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> Amancio said:
> 
> > I rather see the tcp/ip stack fixed than vat patched
> > 
> > 	Tnks,
> > 	Amancio
> 
> I brought out the things some time ago but there was not much reaction
> or agreement on what to do (yes, I know, I should learn CVS, get commit
> privs and act...)
> 
> Furthermore I am not fully convinced that our udp stack is broken. For
> the first patch, having loopback on multicast socket is a configurable
> feature so there is no point in changin the default behaviour when 1-2
> line change can fix the thing.

That depends if it should be the default behavior or not.

> For the ICMP response behaviour, I agree that there would be better
> to fix the kernel but the current behaviour is not totally unreasonable.

Again, is a matter of consistency.

	Regards,
	Amancio





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