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#! rnews 2428 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 22 Jan 1997 14:37:29 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5c58n9$hcb@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c155c$p6u@raven.eva.net> <5c19pg$rf6@lynx.dac.neu.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:64983 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5594 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1906 mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu (Michael Kagalenko) wrote: > ]preferrential to BSD. It also seems the FreeBSD is more solid that > ]Linux in the networking department. > > I see this claim now and then. Can you post some specific data, comparing > Linux and BSD networking ? One example that comes up every now and then (and i don't know whether it's already fixed): the TCP stack chokes if confronted with T/TCP. Try fingering a Linux machine from a FreeBSD one. This is clearly in violation of the RFCs (which mandate a TCP stack to ignore unknown options). While some termserver vendors were also guilty about those problems, they seem to have fixed this fairly quickly. Another thing a customer reported to me yesterday: he could only start two rsh connection to a Linux server from a particular machine in his net, at the third attempt, he got a connection refused (the SYN packet was immediately responded to with a RST packet). All other machines in the net could still rsh to it, just one. :-/ Sure, all this is heavily a moving target. Today's bugs will be fixed by tomorrow. But still, since people running `serious' jobs tend to prefer not using the latest versions of a system, this explains their mental problems with this kind of bugs. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j