Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 10 Mar 1996 14:49:56 +0100
From:      Andras Olah <olah@cs.utwente.nl>
To:        Andrew Foster <adf@fl.net.au>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: finger and 2.2-960303-SNAP 
Message-ID:  <25554.826465796@curie.cs.utwente.nl>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Mar 1996 21:46:05 -1000." <2.2.32.19960311074605.00a4bb08@mail.fl.net.au> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 10 Mar 1996 21:46:05 -1000, Andrew Foster wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems that finger is broken (partially) in this SNAP.
> 
> I cannot finger my Xylogics Remote Annex 4000, but other hosts seem to work.
> 
> I receive :
> 
> [annex1.fl.net.au]
> finger: read: Connection reset by peer

Your peer (annex1.fl.net.au) has a broken TCP implementation and
gets confused by the <SYN,data,FIN> T/TCP packets.  Your options:

1. Get Xylogics fix their TCP stack (preferred ;-).
2. Disable tcp_extensions in /etc/sysconfig.  Actually, it's enough
to do `sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1644=0' if you don't want to lose
the other TCP extensions.

Andras

P.S: You can look up the T/TCP homepage for information about T/TCP
including a list of TCP stacks having problem with T/TCP.
	http://www.noao.edu/~rstevens/ttcp.html



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?25554.826465796>