Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 20:05:06 -0600 From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: der Mouse <mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Cc: mycroft@ai.mit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org, tech-net@netbsd.org, terry@cs.weber.edu Subject: Re: Batch Telnet (Re: diskless and 3Com 509) Message-ID: <199503180205.UAA02717@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Mar 95 12:44:38 EST." <199503171744.MAA16759@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
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> It sure did last time I read the RFC; either end can send a FIN packet > and continue to receive data in the other direction "forever", until > the other end sends a FIN or until the local TCP client insists on > closing down the read half of the connection. That would imply there's some more complex problem with the BSD telnet implementation that the System V implementation gets right, since it should be able to send a FIN on EOF then wait for the server to close.
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