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Re: Installing CERN hppd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Fri Nov 3 22:36:39 1995
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: norbert@taz.de (Norbert Thies)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 16:18:38 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: WPNOEL@891B.IMDI.sandia.gov, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.91.951103071158.295A-100000@mogli> from "Norbert Thies" at Nov 3, 95 07:30:33 am
> Under Windows 3.1 we were using FTPs TCP/IP software.
> We didn't check other protocol stacks.
> After all I concluded there was something broken with Windows 3.1
> or FTPs IP-software. If you have an NT-copy handy try it.
FTP's software doesnt follow RFC1122, Linux doesnt follow a minor bit either
giving a cumulative result of hangs. Either
a) Use current 1.3.x kernels (probably not desirable in production areas)
b) compile the kernel with PC/TCP compatibility
c) Change the PC/TCP client config to have a tcp window of 8K
Alan
