From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 17 13:27:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13822 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 13:27:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13761 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 13:27:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA03051; Sun, 17 May 1998 14:27:06 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA21873; Sun, 17 May 1998 14:27:04 -0600 Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 14:27:04 -0600 Message-Id: <199805172027.OAA21873@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Terry Lambert Cc: pantzer@ludd.luth.se (Mattias Pantzare), dg@root.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad behaviour in slow start In-Reply-To: <199805172011.NAA27836@usr05.primenet.com> References: <199805171027.MAA26384@zed.ludd.luth.se> <199805172011.NAA27836@usr05.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The problem is that you can't detect if the other computer is a local peer > > or not, there may be routers in the path to it even if the netmask tells > > you that it is on the same subnet. It isn't even true on the ethernet > > level any more, switches create the same problems as a router. > > It sounds as if you need a mechanism for marking interfaces as > local or non-local. Too much domain-specific information. It may be local or non-local, depending on what network is hooked up. (Think networks that do fail-over to different media.) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message