From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 10 11:24:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA15087 for current-outgoing; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 11:24:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from ter2.fl.net.au (root@ter2.fl.net.au [203.63.198.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA15082 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 11:24:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from tiger.fl.net.au (tiger.fl.net.au [203.63.198.11]) by ter2.fl.net.au (2.0/adf) with SMTP id FAA25089; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 05:27:13 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960311162301.00a4bcf4@mail.fl.net.au> X-Sender: adf@mail.fl.net.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 06:23:01 -1000 To: Andras Olah From: Andrew Foster Subject: Re: finger and 2.2-960303-SNAP Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Your peer (annex1.fl.net.au) has a broken TCP implementation and >gets confused by the 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