Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Mar 1999 08:50:15 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.2-ac7 TCP ignores ICMP host unreachable ?? |
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> Its a heuristic some systems use. It breaks horribly on certain > kinds of ISDN dial on demand networks, and the RFC says its a > temporary error
Arguably the router is broken -- it should hold the packets in a queue for a period of time before trying to send them.
One day I'll look at hacking pppd to do this...
-cw
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