Re: (Sid) Net broken - Sending streams stall

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (hmh_at_debian.org)
Date: 08/27/04

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    Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:26:44 -0300
    To: Brendon Higgins <bh_doc@users.sourceforge.net>
    
    

    On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Brendon Higgins wrote:
    > I'd remember, but I don't remember doing anything regarding that particular
    > acronym. At least, not manually.

    A new kernel could have it enabled by default, or something...

    > Well, my computer can talk to any other, to a degree. For some reason larger

    I mean through a router. It certainly is having trouble.

    > data just fine, but seems to have trouble sending it. Mind you, this only
    > happens to individual streams, and it does not happen in Win98, which is why
    > I suspect something in my Debian install is broken. Does the Linux TCP/IP
    > implementation really differ that much from Windows that a problem like this
    > is possible to exist in one but not the other?

    Yes. Linux TCP/IP is to Win98 TCP/IP what a P4 is to an original 80386SX.

    And there are a huge lot of completely buggy TCP/IP routers and firewalls
    out there, that fail to work right as soon as something that was not being
    done before is used. Never mind TCP/IP is forward-compatible, when
    implemented correctly.

    Usually, it is Linux and the BSDs that hit those buggy routers first, since
    the Windows TCP/IP stack is something of the stone age that can barely talk
    to others. When you only use the 5 most common words in a language, it gets
    difficult to find others that won't understand you... But don't ask it to
    do anything too dificult.

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      them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
      where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
      Henrique Holschuh
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