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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yakov@watson.ibm.com)
Tue Oct 22 07:49:04 1991
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 91 07:48:15 EDT
From: yakov@watson.ibm.com
To: com-priv@psi.com
More on ToS.
Yakov.
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>From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
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To: ietf@ISI.EDU
Subject: Re: Alternate Routing
Setting non-zero TOS is dangerous.
Silicon Graphics has by now shipped many copies of the next major release
of our UNIX system. Trying to be modern good citizens, we followed some
new precedents and specified non-zero default TOS's for some common
services.
We have consequenty found that the currently prevalent software of some big
vendors do bad things when they receive non-zero TOS.
Fortunately, despite may "alphas" and "betas," we are paranoid and planned
to follow the new release with a "maintenance" release almost immediately.
In this maintenance release, we are retreating to default TOS's of 0.
Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
