Messages in this thread | | | From | "George Bonser" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] Linux default IP ttl | Date | Sun, 15 Jul 2001 12:51:48 -0700 |
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> However, sometimes doing the right thing will cause you to loose > the war. I recall that early Solaris systems had a problem, > the details of which I forget, where web browsers of a certain > very large company would fail. Apparently the Solaris tcp-ip stack > was strictly adhering to the RFC's, it was the other large company's > stack that didn't conform. If memory serves, there was a raging > discussion at the time about whether this non-conformance was > intentional in an effort to target Solaris as an inferior web > server platform. Solaris bowed to the inevitable.
I *THINK* there was some Path MTU Discovery thing that did not always work properly with some BSD 4.2 derived stacks. It has been a long time.
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