[113273] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon EVDO Issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Thu Apr 9 13:48:47 2009
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:27:02 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20090409122835.4c56a095@cs.columbia.edu> (Steven M. Bellovin's
message of "Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:28:35 -0400")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
>> Interesting. I never had that behavior exhibited on my old PCMCIA
>> card on Verizon or on my u727 on Sprint. What OS platform were
>> you on lappie-wise?
>
> I run NetBSD but I know that the problem also showed up on Linux -- a
> friend who worked for an equipment vendor also saw it, and he checked
> the actual EVDO specs.
>
> We suspect the problem doesn't show up for Windows users because
> Windows appears to terminate all connections with extreme prejudice
> when the link goes away, so there won't be any TCP transmissions to
> induce the failure.
Didn't have the problem manifest itself on MacOSX (10.4, 10.5) either...
-r
