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Re: tcp_data bug acked < copied - still in 1.1.88

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Olaf Kirch)
Sun Feb 12 19:08:41 1995

Date: Sun, 12 Feb 95 22:19 MET
From: okir@monad.swb.de (Olaf Kirch)
To: johannes@titan.westfalen.de (Johannes Stille)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu

Johannes Stille wrote:
: -If the destination address in the redirect message is a subnet address
: (with a non-zero subnet part, and the remaining host part zeroed), then
: we're in trouble: There is no way to know the netmask.

I'm just being curious: isn't that what the ICMP Address Request Message
is for? Or is it just not wide-spread enough to be of any use?

Olaf
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