Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 12:06:28 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP Window question Message-ID: <199604170236.MAA05269@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199604162033.QAA14318@etinc.com> from "dennis" at Apr 16, 96 04:33:06 pm
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dennis stands accused of saying: > > Now for the more important question: Does anyone care to hazzard a guess as > to the pct of "broken" implementations that will reject (or choke on) "out > of sequence" packets? *laugh* That depends on the market you're looking at. If you're referring to Unix stacks, almost zero, and you'd have to go back a long way to find them. The out-of-order reassembly handling is necessary to handle lost or corrupted packets. Any system that choked on such a circumstance would do so as soon as an ethernet collision killed a passing TCP fragment. > Dennis -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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