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SubjectRe: 2.2.2-ac7 TCP ignores ICMP host unreachable ??
> 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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