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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
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Andrew Foster
Sydney, Australia




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