Re: TCP Variants on Linux

From: white (white_at_infotechnics.net)
Date: 06/05/05

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    Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 05:19:47 +0700
    
    

    Lew Pitcher Wrote:
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    > Khaled wrote:
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    > Yes, and the Linux NET/x TCP/IP stack conforms to those standards.
    > FWIW, the
    > standards are the TCP/IP RFCs, not specific implementations.
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    >
    > Nope. Not called TCP variants. Called RFCs.
    >
    >
    > Any variation from or extension of the RFCs is not a "standard". Your
    > initial
    > post listed a number of "implementations", not "standards".
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    >
    >
    > In your terminology, /none/.
    >
    > Linux TCP/IP is built to the standards, not built to mimic any one
    > particular
    > implementation of BSD's TCP/IP stack.
    >
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