Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 06:23:01 -1000 From: Andrew Foster <adf@fl.net.au> To: Andras Olah <olah@cs.utwente.nl> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finger and 2.2-960303-SNAP Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960311162301.00a4bcf4@mail.fl.net.au>
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>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 And yet the old finger works fine, as does fingering from most other hosts I've tried. Thanks, Andrew ----------- Andrew Foster Sydney, Australia
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